Bloody Tennis — Nikias Chryssos [Locarno ’26 Review]

An opening shot of a bleeding, near-dead girl dragging herself across a tennis court in pitch darkness, only to be knocked out by a single serve from a ball machine, tells you immediately and exactly what kind of film is on the screen. Bloody Tennis, the latest feature from celebrated German-Greek director Nikias Chryssos, assembles overtly familiar genre parts and pours them into a sport as cinematically resourceful as tennis. The result is a visually pleasing, finely acted film that...