Overview

• Set inside an elite Yale philosophy institute, the film centers on a he-said-she-said allegation that the screenplay by Nora Garrett keeps deliberately unresolved.
• Julia Roberts plays Professor Alma opposite Andrew Garfield’s Hank and Ayo Edebiri’s Maggie, with Michael Stuhlbarg as Frederik.
• Critics highlight a cold, distancing tone underscored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score and Malik Hassan Sayeed’s watchful cinematography.
• Early reactions describe the film as deeply unsettling, with WELT calling it perhaps the most uncomfortable release of the year and der Freitag noting Roberts’s restrained, unsentimental performance.
• Reviewers frame the project as a turn in Luca Guadagnino’s work from portraying desire to probing consent, credibility and institutional dynamics in the MeToo era.