“Challengers” Is Essentially a Well-Shot Commercial

“I don’t watch tennis matches,” Luca Guadagnino, the director of “Challengers,” a movie about tennis players, recently said in an interview with Little White Lies, a film magazine. “It’s quite boring to me.” The problem, he explained, has to do with how live sports are shot: tennis matches don’t look very dynamic because the camera has to be objective. “But for this film,” Guadagnino went on, “the tennis had to be very subjective. And who’s the subject? The subject is the movie.”