Plot: Mike and Josh are two talented tennis players. They get along well, but they end up falling for the same girl, Tashi. She's a rising star in female tennis and lives and breathes her sport. When Josh wins a direct match against Mike he gets to take Tashi out on a date. It's the start of a complicated love triangle.
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October 26, 2024
A love triangle that develops as a typical tennis match. The stories are set up in such a way that Guadagnino can easily switch between both timelines, but I didn't quite understand the need to do so. It's a narrative folly that only adds the runtime, which is quite excessive for a simple romance like this one.
The performances are decent and Guadagnino makes an effort to add some visual frills. He also tried to do something different with the soundtrack, but the electronic music sounds horrid and fake, I don't understand why music composers keep coming up with this kind of garbage. I can't say I cared too much for any of it, but it wasn't a terrible film.