Two films about sexual assault in academia have emerged in recent months. One was a small masterpiece. The other was a clattering disgrace.
The one you are more likely to have heard of, thanks to old-fashioned star power, is Luca Guadagnino’s head-wrecking After the Hunt. Asked if it was a #MeToo movie, the Italian director told Variety that “it’s a bit of a lazy way to describe it”. Yeah, okay, mate.
The film stars Ayo Edebiri as a black, gay grad student at Yale who reports a sexual assault by Andrew Garfield’s bluff lecturer. Immediately cancelled, he complains that “the common enemy has been chosen, and it’s the straight, white, cis male”.
An Italian journalist got in trouble for asking Garfield and his costar Julia Roberts –
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