Overview

• Luca Guadagnino’s film, starring Julia Roberts with Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, screened at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
• Roberts said the goal is to prompt audiences to talk rather than deliver a political statement, emphasizing a portrait of people in a moment.
• Guadagnino described the narrative as a collision of viewpoints intended to unsettle without offering a moral verdict.
• Early coverage underscores the film’s refusal to provide certainties around a campus assault allegation, with some seeing a challenge to contemporary activist assumptions.
• Reports differed on whether the screening was in or out of competition, and multiple outlets cited Amazon as the producer.