Queer (2024)
Country: IT/US
Technical: col 137m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Synopsis:
An American in Mexico City in the 1950s spends his time drinking tequila and mescal and sleeping with younger men, until he sets eyes on a demobbed sailor on a voyage of self-discovery. From there his attraction becomes an obsession, as central to him as his heroin addiction, and he embarks on a quest for a mysterious Ecuadorian drug reputed to promote telepathy, so that he can be one with his beloved.
Review:
Fans of William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory fiction will find much to appreciate here, and if Naked Lunch went too far into the phantasmagoric for you, then this is certainly more accessible. Nevertheless, most of us, rent boys and queens excluded, will find little to sustain a two-hour plus running time. A nostalgia-infused production design and risk-taking performance from Craig offer incidental compensations.
Country: IT/US
Technical: col 137m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Synopsis:
An American in Mexico City in the 1950s spends his time drinking tequila and mescal and sleeping with younger men, until he sets eyes on a demobbed sailor on a voyage of self-discovery. From there his attraction becomes an obsession, as central to him as his heroin addiction, and he embarks on a quest for a mysterious Ecuadorian drug reputed to promote telepathy, so that he can be one with his beloved.
Review:
Fans of William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory fiction will find much to appreciate here, and if Naked Lunch went too far into the phantasmagoric for you, then this is certainly more accessible. Nevertheless, most of us, rent boys and queens excluded, will find little to sustain a two-hour plus running time. A nostalgia-infused production design and risk-taking performance from Craig offer incidental compensations.
Country: IT/US
Technical: col 137m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Synopsis:
An American in Mexico City in the 1950s spends his time drinking tequila and mescal and sleeping with younger men, until he sets eyes on a demobbed sailor on a voyage of self-discovery. From there his attraction becomes an obsession, as central to him as his heroin addiction, and he embarks on a quest for a mysterious Ecuadorian drug reputed to promote telepathy, so that he can be one with his beloved.
Review:
Fans of William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory fiction will find much to appreciate here, and if Naked Lunch went too far into the phantasmagoric for you, then this is certainly more accessible. Nevertheless, most of us, rent boys and queens excluded, will find little to sustain a two-hour plus running time. A nostalgia-infused production design and risk-taking performance from Craig offer incidental compensations.