The Luca Guadagnino–directed film is a metaphor for the most basic human urge: desire.
It is the hottest scene of the hottest film of the year. Near the start of Challengers, teenage tennis sensation Tashi Duncan finds herself in the dingy hotel room shared by two of her male contemporaries: Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson . The hormone-fueled besties have just followed Tashi around a party, where they ogled at her in her intensely 2010-coded royal-blue dress. Now, they’re all drinking beer from cans on the hotel room floor. Both boys eventually ask for Tashi’s number.
Perhaps this is the touch of director Guadagnino—who brought Timothée Chalamet eating that peach to our screens in 2017 gay romance Call Me by Your Name. The main three characters of the new film are partially naked for a lot of it, whether it’s Art and Patrick in a steamy sauna, or Tashi strutting around fancy hotel rooms rubbing lotion onto her body. The relationship between Patrick and Art feels familial, adversarial, and also homoerotic at points.
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