'After the Hunt' Would Like to Touch a Nerve

The dessert tart proffered at a chic faculty party in After the Hunt isn’t simply scrumptious-looking. It’s decadent: rich, flaky, and sophisticated, a conversation piece plated with élan, presented with a flourish. This tart is an objet d’art—a tárt. And indeed, pretty much every element of Luca Guadagnino’s new drama arrives with an implied accent aigu, from the A-list actors to the luxuriously textured cinematography, to the quasi–fairy tale title card informing us off the top, via the Windsor Light Condensed typeface beloved of Woody Allen since the 1970s, that “it happened at Yale.”