Some thoughts on Challengers

Luca Guadagnino’s movie as a restaurant

It is with absolutely no shame that I humbly recant my initial reservations about Challengers, which has left me unfathomably and irreparably horny. The superior talents of cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom—responsible for a bevy of Apichatpong films—charges images with resplendent eroticism and transforms rodent men into sex gods, recasting their industrious athleticism and awe-inspiring musculature as lissome, seductive brawn. Never have I pined so hard for svelte, stubbly thighs.