Overview

• Playing out of competition in Venice, the Amazon MGM Studios release drew a roughly five- to six-minute standing ovation inside the Sala Grande.
• Roberts stars as an Ivy League philosophy professor navigating a student’s accusation against a colleague and the fallout from her own past.
• At a charged press conference, Roberts said the movie is not making statements and aims to get people talking, while Luca Guadagnino described it as a collision of competing perspectives.
• Early reactions are split, with many praising performances by Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri as others fault the film’s approach to #MeToo and campus power dynamics.
• The feature, written by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett, is slated for a New York Film Festival berth and an October theatrical rollout in the United States.