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Film Review - Challengers

Film Review - Challengers

Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor chew scenery in Luca Guadagnino's gripping sex-and-tennis melodrama

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Apr 28, 2024
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The tennis sequences in Luca Guadagnino’s new film Challengers are nothing like Wimbledon coverage. Featuring high angles, low angles, point-of-view shots, tennis balls passing through camera lenses, “impossible” camera positions (from the ground looking up, for instance), plus a plethora of sweaty closeups, not to ment…

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