Itching for More Menage-a-Trois Cinema After 'Challengers'? Consider Jean Eustache's 'The Mother and the Whore'

Itching for More Menage-a-Trois Cinema After 'Challengers'? Consider Jean Eustache's 'The Mother and the Whore'

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There's also a connection between the two leads of each film, Zendaya and Jean-Pierre Léaud, in that both began their careers as children and used these roles to expand audiences' perceptions of them as adults.

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Thankfully, this piece does not aim to strictly draw comparisons between the two films, but rather convince readers and cinephiles alike why viewing both side-by-side could expand one's perspective on a subject matter not often explored.

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It clocks in at nearly three hours and forty minutes, consists of almost all dialogue scenes shot in 1.37:1 on 16mm black-and-white film, and features a central character who, if they were around today, would most likely be an online troll.

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Enter " Challengers " - a sleek, sexy tennis-slice-of-a-sports-drama that comes at viewers with a voraciousness likely to make them weak in the knees.

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