Game, Sex, Match

“Thwump, whack, grunt, drip, smack, hit, sizzle. Can you hear the sexual tension? It’s the baseline sound of director Luca Guadagnino’s latest movie, Challengers”

“Guadagnino has served up the seemingly unimaginable. First, he’s made a sports film that actually works … And second, he’s made the kind of old-fashioned romantic thriller, long absent from the cinemas”

Guadagnino: “‘I like to see people in their wholeness and fragility,’ he said in the interview with Waters. ‘It’s interesting to see the nature, the naked truth of [what] we are made of’”