Thu, 18 Sep 2025, 07:17 pm
শিরোনাম :
Egypt says 3,000-year-old gold bracelet missing from museum Starmer to recognise Palestinian state ‘after Trump state visit’ Why does sport struggle with equal pay? Deepika Padukone dropped from Kalki sequel Surge in deadly ‘brain-eating’ amoeba cases causes alarm in India’s Kerala Gunman kills three police officers, wounds two in Pennsylvania Students from 7 govt colleges warn of ‘tough demos’ if univ ordinance not issued by Monday ICT hears Nahid Islam’s testimony against Sheikh Hasina Dhaka extends warm welcome to upcoming EU pre-polls mission visit Chhatra Dal announces panel for CUCSU election
NewYork

Trump invited to attend impeachment hearing or ‘stop complaining’

Congress has invited US President Donald Trump to its first impeachment hearing on 4 December, reports BBC. Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Mr Trump

read more

Bloomberg entry into US presidential race raises ethics issues

With Michael Bloomberg now running for president, the news service that bears his name said Sunday it will not “investigate” him or any of his Democratic rivals, and Bloomberg Opinion

read more

Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn debate on Brexit

Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn traded blows on Tuesday over Brexit and the health system as they vied for votes during the first ever head-to-head

read more

Jennifer Acruri refuses to deny affair with Boris Johnson

American businesswoman Jennifer Acruri has once again refused to deny having an affair with Boris Johnson. Appearing on today’s Good Morning Britain, Ms Acruri said she was “heartbroken” when the

read more

4 shot dead, several injured as gunmen open fire at backyard party in California

Several people were shot dead while watching a football game at a central California home on Sunday, police said. Police were called to the scene after at least two people

read more

8 dead amid protests in Bolivia

At least eight people died after the police and military forces clashed with protestors on Friday in the Bolivian city of Sacaba, Cochabamba department, local authorities reported on Saturday. “We

read more

General election 2019: Record number of women set to stand

A record number of women look set to stand for Parliament next month, with female candidates likely to comprise about a third of the total, reports BBC. Provisional PA analysis

read more

Two killed in California school shooting, teen in custody

A teenage boy gunned down fellow students at a California high school on his 16th birthday Thursday, killing two and wounding another three before turning the pistol on himself. The

read more

Trump impeachment hearings about to go public

The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open. When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing Wednesday morning, America and the rest of

read more

Trump offers to help Mexico in ‘war’ against the drugs cartels

President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area — and said the United States

read more

Special 49th BCS exam to be held on 10 Oct

China’s victory in people’s war against fascism

A real chance for change in Sri Lanka

JAGPA president injured in knife attack outside Gono Odhikar Parishad office

Left-leaning VP candidate loses candidacy in JUCSU polls

The megastar plays a philosophy professor shaken by a student’s sexual assault allegation against a colleague in Luca Guadagnino’s new film – and she’s easily the best thing about it. Julia Roberts doesn’t make many films these days. She was in Leave the World Behind in 2023; in 2022, there was her tropical romantic comedy with George Clooney, Ticket to Paradise; and then we have to jump all the way back to 2018 for her previous turn in Ben Is Back. But you can see why she chose to star in After the Hunt, a contentious campus drama directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers). Roberts is on screen for almost every one of its 139 minutes, and she is the monumental centre around which its chaos and controversy swirl. It’s the kind of heavyweight role that gets awards nominations if it goes to the right person – and Roberts is definitely the right person. Her character is Alma, a philosophy professor at Yale University. Striding regally around its leafy quadrangles in a chic white suit that matches her blonde hair, this combatively intelligent alpha female is adored by everyone who knows her. Her husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is resigned to the fact that he loves her more than she loves him, and is willing to make whimsical jokes about the imbalance; Hank (Andrew Garfield), a would-be rebellious friend and colleague, is even more flirtatious with her than he is with everyone else; and her favourite PhD student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), worships her – which could explain why she is Alma’s favourite PhD student. It seems as if the status quo might soon be upset, though, as either Alma or Hank – or perhaps both – is expected to be granted permanent tenure. But then something far more drastic happens. The day after a boozy party in Alma and Frederik’s book-lined flat, Maggie tells Alma that Hank walked her home and then “crossed a line”. Alma is sympathetic – but only up to a point. There is no evidence of assault, so she isn’t sure whether to trust the word of a new friend over an old one, especially at such a critical moment in her career. And maybe, her thinking goes, lines were crossed at the party anyway, considering that teachers and students were hugging each other while knocking back expensive wine. “Roberts’ Alma is a coiled spring: her steely stillness makes her ferocity all the more powerful” It’s refreshing to see a grown-up Hollywood film that takes on contemporary issues: feminism, cancel culture, identity politics, and the generation gap. But After the Hunt is more of an admirable project than an engaging drama, because it never stops reminding you of how clever it wants to be. Guadagnino keeps showing off his quirky camera angles and intrusive music choices. The screenplay, by Nora Garrett, squeezes too much philosophical jargon into the dialogue, and too many tangential scenes and subplots into the structure. You might think that the alleged assault would be a big enough deal for any film, but Alma is given mysterious abdominal pains and guilty secrets, and Maggie is overloaded with significance as a queer, black, plagiarism-prone young woman with a non-binary partner and rich parents who are major donors to the university. In theory, viewers of After the Hunt should leave the cinema arguing about its subject matter. In practice, they’re more likely to be asking each other what was going on and what it meant. It’s all a bit much, basically. Garfield, miscast as a denim-clad dude who is, it is implied, roughly the same age as Roberts’ character, shouts and swears and waves his arms with a quantity-over-quality approach to acting. Stuhlbarg’s flouncing and sing-song delivery are presumably meant to be irritating, but perhaps not as irritating as they actually are. At the heart of it all, though, Roberts is a different matter. She understands that less can be more. Her Alma is a coiled spring: her steely stillness makes her ferocity all the more powerful and her pain all the more intense. Her muttering is scarier than Garfield’s yelling, and when she glares at someone, they stay glared at. It’s an expertly controlled performance which demonstrates why Roberts has been a Hollywood icon for so long, and why she could well be in line for her second Oscar, 25 years after Erin Brockovich. After the Hunt would have been better if everyone else involved had had some of that control, too.

9 AL activists held for bringing out sudden processions at Tejgaon

CA to hold meeting with 7 more political parties this afternoon

BMD predicts flashflood, multiple low pressures in September across Bangladesh

Hamas rejects reported plan for US takeover of Gaza

Mohammad Hamiduzzaman MD, Chairman, Editorial Board

M. Abid Rahman, Editor

A K Azad, Bangladesh Bureau Chief

Bangladeshdailyonline.com Publish by SANGBAD INTL. INC.

64 Central Ave. Garden City, NY 11040

Tel: 516-491-4207, E-mail: newswbny@gmail.com

© All rights reserved © 2019 WeeklyBangladeshNY.Net
Theme Dwonload From ThemesBazar.Com