may be the first tennis movie that really takes us onto the court. When racket connects with ball it’s as if an Exocet missile has been fired. Every contact between ball and court is explosive, as director, Luca Guadagnino pumps up the volume and pushes us back into our seats. Sweat doesn’t drip from the players – it cascades.
Zoom back 13 years, and they are best buddies, winning doubles matches together and competing in a friendly fashion. Art is the good guy – solid, reliable and thoroughly decent. Paul is a rogue, who keeps trying to drag his stitched-up companion into trouble. Complementary personalities, the two are inseparable until they lay eyes on teenage tennis star, Tashi Duncan . They think she’s pure class, and out of their league.
The contest is conducted on the court and in the minds of the three players, with Tashi being by far the most psychologically complex. What does she want? An impossible blend of calculation and instinct, she probably couldn’t say. It’s odd that in an era of diminishing attention spans, a Japanese director who regularly tests the patience of his audience is one of the cinema’s rising stars. Yet for everyone who loves Hamaguchi’s movies, there are plenty who find them too slow and introverted.will continue to divide audiences. The film began as a kind of tone poem in collaboration with composer Eiko Ishibashi, who supplied the layered, atmospheric score.
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