'Chevalier' will leave as many viewers enervated as amused, but it's an expertly executed tease.

Chevalier, a Greek comedy about a six men in an absurd competition of machismo, won the top prize at the London Film Festival.

That “Chevalier” is bowing in Locarno’s rarefied competish strand, rather than following “Attenberg” to Venice, suggests the new film is unlikely to match its predecessor’s relative ...