She was the most anticipated diva at the Venice Film Festival and she did not disappoint: Julia Roberts , for the first time at the Lido with a film, “After the Hunt” by Luca Guadagnino (out of competition), during her long day among photographers, journalists and fans showed charisma, class, the professionalism of a Hollywood veteran and a touch of humour.
The film, which also addresses the #metoo theme, stars Alma, a respected philosophy professor at Yale who finds herself confronting trauma and past choices when a colleague and close friend, Henrik (Andrew Garfield), is accused of sexual harassment by a student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), one of Alma's star students.
When asked if the Oscar-winning actress thinks the film will spark controversy and be considered politically incorrect, she responds with irony: "I love light questions early in the morning. I don't know if there will be controversy and controversy over the film, but we challenge people to become passionate, even angry. We don't make statements; we share the lives of these characters. The most exciting part is that people then talk about it, because we are losing the art of conversation in our time."
Then, on the red carpet (delayed by rain), it was all about glamour . She arrived in a long blue dress with optical patterns and her trademark dazzling smile; surrounded by three bodyguards, she signed a few autographs and took a few photos with the many people waiting, before rejoining Guadagnino (in a cream jacket with small flowers) and the rest of the cast.
(Unioneonline)
