New music – After The Hunt OST (Nonesuch)

from the press release:

Nonesuch Records releases the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s film After the Hunt digitally on October 10; it will be available on CD from October 17.  After the Hunt stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, and opens in cinemas from October 17, following its world premiere at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival.  The album features the score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, a selection of works by the composer John Adams, as well as additional music from the film by Ambitious Lovers, Julius Eastman, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Everything But The Girl among others.  Find the full track list below. 

From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, After the Hunt is a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.  After the Hunt is written by Nora Garrett. 

“I was excited to make a movie about now,” Guadagnino says. “After the Hunt is a thriller that asks not what is the truth of this event but how many truths are there?  And who should decide which is right?  And, as a filmmaker, it was also a way of exploring how to tell a story showing all the possibilities of truth without saying one point-of-view is most valuable.”

The film’s suspense, feeling, and questioning is heightened by the texturally inventive score from the two-time Oscar-winning team of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.  This marks the fourth film Reznor and Ross have scored for Guadagnino.  “I always show Trent and Atticus the full movie without any music first.  Then we start talking about principles and ideas,” Guadagnino explains.  “In this case it was all about creating doubt.  They brought me these extraordinary piano notes that underline the question of do we believe this person or not.  This theme of doubt starts up in the first scene and keeps expanding.  And then, around the structure they created, we brought in pop music as well as contemporary composers like John Adams.”

Adams’ music has featured in almost all of Guadagnino’s work, beginning with I Am Love (2009).   Inspired by and scored entirely to Adams’ pre-existing music, this was the first time Adams had allowed his work to be used in this way.  Guadagnino subsequently featured pieces by Adams in his films A Bigger Splash (2015), Call My Be Your Name (2017), throughout the eight episodes of his miniseries We Are Who We Are (2020), as well as the documentaries Inconscio Italiano (2011) and Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams (2020).

“Adams’ music comes to me constantly.  Discovering it was transformative and changed my life as a director forever,” admits Guadagnino.  “It comes with a capacity of interpreting reality, interpreting the history of the reality, interpreting the history of the United States, and understanding even the boundaries of music to become a cunning exploration of the identity of human nature and the politic relationship that ties all us in.”

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and GRAMMY nominee.  Over the last three decades, his career as a director, writer, producer, and designer has been defined by rigorous dedication to artistic craft and creative experimentation.  Celebrated for his bold and emotionally resonant work, his films include The Protagonists (1999), I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Suspiria (2018), Bones and All (2022), Challengers (2024), and Queer (2024).

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are accomplished musicians, composers and producers who have achieved significant popular and critical success in both film and rock music.  Most recently, the duo composed the scores for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Queer.  Both scores received wide acclaim, with Challengers winning Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards, as well as a GRAMMY nomination.  Over the years, the pair has composed music for a diverse array of film and television projects, beginning with David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010), which earned them an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.  Their next collaboration with Fincher, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2013), earned them a GRAMMY Award.  Beyond their work in film, Reznor founded the iconic band Nine Inch Nails in 1988.  Ross joined Reznor and the band in 2016.

John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of music.  His works are among the most performed of all contemporary classical music, long embraced by the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, instrumental soloists and singers, choreographers, and opera directors.  Nonesuch Records made its first record with Adams in 1985.   He was signed exclusively to the label that year, and since then the company has released more than 40 first recordings and over 30 all-Adams albums, including the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, as well as 2022’s 40-disc Collected Works box set. 

After the Hunt track list:

Disc 1

1. Clock, One
2. A Child Is Born – Tony Bennett, Bill Evans
3. Let’s Walk – Mark Harelik, Victoria Clark, Adam Guettel
4. After the Hunt, One – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
5. It’s Gonna Rain – Ambitious Lovers
6. György Ligeti: Piano Concerto: II. Lento e deserto – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Asko Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw
7. Terrible Love – The National
8. John Adams: Gnarly Buttons: II. Hoe-down (Mad Cow) – John Adams, London Sinfonietta
9. John Adams: Gnarly Buttons: III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me – John Adams, London Sinfonietta
10. After the Hunt, Two – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
11. Break With – Ryuichi Sakamoto

Disc 2

1. Clock, Two
2. Julius Eastman: Evil Ni**er – Julius Eastman, Frank Ferko, Janet Kattas, Patricia Martin
3. L’incontro – Piero Ciampi
4. John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: “It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably” – Kent Nagano, Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, The London Opera Chorus
5. John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: Desert Chorus – Kent Nagano, Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, The London Opera Chorus
6. After the Hunt, Three
7. John Adams: City Noir: III. Boulevard Night – David Robertson, St. Louis Symphony
8. É Preciso Perdoar – Ambitious Lovers
9. Nothing Left To Lose – Everything But The Girl

Soundtrack compiled by Luca Guadagnino & Matthew Rankin

Music supervisor: Robin Urdang

Published post no.2,686 – Monday 13 October 2025