Two buddies vie for a woman’s favor, and later they face each other on the tennis court: “Challengers” by Luca Guadagnino has almost everything a drama about sex and friendship needs – but something is missing.
There they sit now, the two teenage boys. Best friends, together in a hotel room, far from home. In the middle of the night they are waiting for the beautiful girl that they just spoke to and invited to the party. They have been pining for the woman of their dreams for a long time and both have a latent crush. Which hasn’t been a problem so far because she seemed completely unattainable, little more than an erotic theory.