Queer
2024
***
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Henrique Zaga, Colin Bates, Andra Ursuta, David Lowery, Drew Droege, Michaël Borremans
In 1950, Lee, a middle-aged American writer, lives a lonely and hedonistic life amid a small community of gay American expats in Mexico City. He becomes infatuated with Eugene, a young American who remains emotionally distant. Luca Guadagnino's drama about desire and loneliness looks fabulous and it features some nice, anachronistic needle drops. However, it also presents two main characters who are very difficult to like: one smokes, drinks, and talks non-stop; the other is an emotionless blank canvas. I checked out during their second-half journey to the Ecuadorian jungle to seek a mythical hallucinogenic drug. Justin Kuritzkes scripted from the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs.
