2017 · drama · biography · sport
Battle of the Sexes
Directed by Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton2h 1m2017
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Our read: Battle of the Sexes (2017) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · biography · sport entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
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