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CHALLENGERS
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Amazon MGM Studios

IS IT POSSIBLE to combine tennis and tragicomedy? Is it possible to combine both with techno music (compliments of Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor) and a throuple involving two men and one powerful woman? Director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) manages to pull it off with Challengers, in which he again explores the blurry line between friendship and sexual intimacy.

Colin Carman is an assistant professor of English at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. A recent article can be found in Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression.