In ‘Challengers,’ Zendaya and Josh O’Connor’s characters win US Open juniors tournaments, but aren’t successful pros. Experts explain the psychology behind it.
By the time Luca Guadagnino's erotically charged tennis film "Challengers" reaches its breathless, sweaty, pulse-pounding and deeply satisfying climax, you'll be reaching for a cigarette, so to speak. Rarely is a film so sensorially captivating, every element of cinema, including script, cinematogra
“Challengers” is a deeply erotic and sexy movie even though it doesn’t have all that much sex. Like everything else conversation, arguments, catharsis the sex is subsumed into tennis.