After the
Hunt, Good Boy, and Blue
Moon
And filmmaking
so inept that it transcends sexual politics
After the Hunt is a 2025 psychological thriller. Luca Guadagnino directs. His previous films include Call Me By Your Name and Queer. The title After the Hunt is an allusion to a quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck. "People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after the hunt." Nora Garrett, a first-time screenwriter, wrote the screenplay in a workshop. Garrett was intrigued by the disconnect between a person's interior life and the persona that one must present in order to be successful. The main character, Alma, a Yale professor pursuing tenure, has "has spent her whole life cordoning off pieces of herself in order to reach this apex … as soon as she's there … circumstances … occur that would make it so that she could no longer successfully keep those other parts of her away from the identity that she projects out into the world."
