Luca Guadagnino ’s new film After the Hunt starring Julia Roberts , Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield features themes and character conflicts that speak to the #MeToo movement. So what was the Italian filmmaker trying to say by using opening credits inspired by the films of Woody Allen?

That’s one of the questions Guadagnino fielded during the film’s official press conference at the Venice Film Festival on Friday (courtesy of IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio).

“The crass answer would be, why not?” Guadagnino answered before a more lengthy take. “When I started thinking about this movie with my collaborators in front of the camera and behind the camera — Malik Hassan Sayeed, director of photography, Stefano Baisi on production design and Giulia Piersanti [on costume design] — we coul

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