Lor last year Luca Guadagnino has upset the Venice Film Festival with Bones and All. This year the Sicilian director will open the 80th edition of the oldest festival in the world (30 August – 9 September 2023) with Challengershis new film with Zendaya, as a former prodigy of tennis involved in a love triangle.
A decidedly different topic from the cannibalism addressed in the previous film with Timothee Chalamet. Luca Guadagnino is increasingly projected towards a cinema made in the USA, and this time he has grabbed a top actress of the moment like Zendaya. Challengers will live up to Bones and All? At the end of August we will have the verdict. The spotlights will certainly be on the film which opens a historic edition of the Festival and will arrive in theaters at September.
Challengers: the plot of the film by Luca Guadagnino
After the disturbing and overwhelming Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino with Challengers leads us into completely different atmospheres, between golf courses tennis and competitive spirit following the protagonist Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a former champion turned coach who admits no mistakes, both on and off the court.
Tashi trains her husband Art (Mike Faist), a star player coming off a losing streak. What will be the strategy that he will adopt the coach/wife to solve the fate of the champion? The story takes an unexpected turn when the husband has to face the exploded Patrick in an ATP tournament (Josh O’Connor), once his best friend ed Tashi’s ex boyfriend. Past and present, personal and professional life mix. Tashi becomes involved in a love triangle.
In Challengers Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and tennis
After Timothee Chalamet Luca Guadagnino for the new Challengers he calls to his side two other top-notch actors and in vogue: Zendayawhich in November we will see alongside Chalamet in the eagerly awaited second part of Dunes by Denis Villeneuve, e Josh O’Connorwhich many have enjoyed in The Crown and which in Cannes was in competition with The chimera ours Alice Rohrwacher (in theaters November 23). Mike Faistinstead he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for West Side Story by Steven Spielberg
In the film we will see playing tennis Zendaya who trained on the field with the former tennis player Brad Gilbert. The actress trained for three months, in order to be as believable as possible on the big screen.
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