There's a very pointed choice made in the opening credits of Luca Guadagnino's "After the Hunt" that is either a tribute, a provocation, or a little bit of both, as the sequence — stark black background, white type font, cast listed in alphabetical order, soft jazz in the background — is styled exactly after a Woody Allen title sequence.

If this were 15 years ago, no big deal. But Allen has been essentially removed — or canceled, in the parlance of our times — from movie culture, to the point where there was even handwringing online over whether or not it was OK to watch "Annie Hall" in the wake of the death of actress Diane Keaton.

So Guadagnino — a titillating filmmaker and habitual button pusher, making his fourth film in four years — is knowingly stepping into these waters, essenti

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