Overview

• Luca Guadagnino’s film reaches cinemas on Oct. 16 after a Venice premiere that drew sharply divergent reviews.
• Set at Yale, the plot follows a philosophy professor navigating a doctoral student’s misconduct claim against a colleague.
• The narrative keeps the allegation unresolved, portraying both accuser and accused as unreliable to foreground moral ambiguity.
• Reviewers single out Roberts’s performance and the film’s craft, including a Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score and Malik Hassan Sayeed’s cinematography.
• Guadagnino nods to Woody Allen in the credits, and Roberts has said the aim is conversation rather than a manifesto, intensifying debate over the film’s #MeToo framing.