This week things are getting triple heavy as Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers brings throuples to the screen, and we are here for it. Starring the regal triumvirate of Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist and method dressing queen Zendaya, it sees a clutch of randy tennis pros take the competitive spirit off-court and into the bedroom. Cue a double neck kiss set to Rihanna’s ‘S&M’ that is fast becoming the object-labelling meme for our times. It’s sparking internet meltdowns, but beyond a five-second snatch in the trailer setting up the steamy rivalry, we’d just be speculating on how involved the sex gets.
It’s not the only cinematic three-up in recent months: Franz Rogowski wowed the festival circuit as the net-vested go-between for Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Passages. And whether your gateway movie throuple was Eva Green, Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel in a bath in The Dreamers, or Maribel Verdú getting her younger man fix with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in Y Tu Mamá También, or the original and best — Jeanne Moreau having her pick of Jules et Jim back in 1962 — it’s sure to have at very least piqued your interest.
