'Rivales': an overwhelming Zendaya in a failed melodramatic volley for a script by a junior writer

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'Rivales': an overwhelming Zendaya in a failed melodramatic volley for a script by a junior writer

Luca Guadagnino is especially good at two things: first, the reinvention of melodrama based on music far from classical music and spectacular contemporary vehemence in the staging and editing, in films such as I Am Love, Blinded by the Sun and Call Me By Your Name, sometimes even embedded in terrifying genre works such as Suspiria and Until the Bones; and second, volcanic eroticism with no background or form, but at the same time with a profound…