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Queer

  • 2024
  • R
  • 2h 17m
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Daniel Craig in Queer (2024)
Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker.
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In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally es... Read allIn 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

  • Director
    • Luca Guadagnino
  • Writers
    • William S. Burroughs
    • Justin Kuritzkes
  • Stars
    • Daniel Craig
    • Daan de Wit
    • Jason Schwartzman
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    • Director
      • Luca Guadagnino
    • Writers
      • William S. Burroughs
      • Justin Kuritzkes
    • Stars
      • Daniel Craig
      • Daan de Wit
      • Jason Schwartzman
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      • 4 wins & 60 nominations total

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    • William Lee
    Daan de Wit
    • Karl Steinberg
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    • Joe Guidry
    Henrique Zaga
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    • Winston Moor
    Colin Bates
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    • Tom Williams
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    Simon Rizzoni
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    Claudio Cardenas
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    Gilberto Barraza
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    • Director
      • Luca Guadagnino
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      • William S. Burroughs
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    6sunzhu1985

    Mixed emotions of depression

    The main reason is that the film was too abstract and seemed like a stream of consciousness. The general meaning is to explore the loneliness in the queer heart, the difficulty in establishing connections with others, the pain of not being able to love, and the complex emotions of depression. But the performance technique is very stream-of-consciousness, especially the last 20 minutes, which have almost no lines and are completely used to express the inner world of the male protagonist through various blurs, hallucinations, and abstract art forms. Although I understood what the director wanted to express, the form of expression may not be acceptable to the public, and I wanted to leave the scene at one point.
    5euroGary

    Trying too hard

    I have never seen 'Naked Lunch' (1991) but I found myself frequently thinking of it during the 2024 London Film Festival screening of 'Queer': probably to be expected, as William S Burroughs provided the source material for both films.

    In 1950s' México, William Lee, an American writer on the wrong side of... forty? Fifty? Spends his days getting drunk, shooting up and having casual sex with other men. One day muscular, smart young hunk Eugene walks into the bar and Lee is smitten. But what does Eugene himself want? Plus there is that telepathic drug to think about...

    I am not sure what, stylistically, director Luca Guadagnino is trying to achieve with this film. The sets are decorated almost exclusively in block colours - dull reds and olive greens, for example - and have that vaguely unrealistic, clean, Technicolour look that made me think the intention is to homage the films of the era in which the film is set. But if that is the case, why the decidedly un-1950s rock- and techno soundtrack?

    Daniel Craig (is it my imagination or is he beginning to look like Sid James?) is hamstrung in the lead role by constantly having to declaim nonsense speeches in an accent clearly not his own. Drew Starkey is able to give a subtler performance as the manipulative Eugene, and certainly looks the preppy part. Lesley Manville is unrecognisable as a doctor living in the South American jungle - well done to the make-up team!

    This is the kind of film that strikes me as being more about arty style than storytelling substance. It was okay to see once, but I shall not be watching it again.
    6TakeTwoReviews

    Good, but Burroughs is better on the page.

    Daniel Craig is clearly making an effort to put down some markers with his post Bond choices. I don't blame him, it's such a suffocating role. The polar opposite, here he's William, a gay American in 1950s Mexico. A very William S. Burroughs premise, who wrote the generally autobiographical book this is based on. It's not Naked Lunch, but it does have an unsettling vibe. Not helped by unusual needle drops from Nirvana, Prince and New Order that just don't fit. William is lonely... and horny. So really, William is frustrated. That is until he meets Eugene (Drew Starkey) and they bond over war stories in the dry heat that drips from the screen. William is infatuated, but doesn't know if the younger Eugene is, or if he's even queer. It doesn't help that William has a self-deprecating, unconfident nature, although vast amounts of cheap booze and cigarettes seem to help. It's an awkward love/lust story, with a lob-sided feeling that William is destined to be hurt. Panama hats, linen suits, glass coke bottles and rusting Cadillacs driving down sunburnt dusty streets, past the daytime drinkers. There's a sordid, lazy, quietly hedonistic tone. Where time is largely irrelevant. The perfect place for William to wallow in a heroin stupor as Eugene leads him on, encourages him, pushes him away. Things don't change much as William tries to whisk Eugene away on a trip to Ecuador, but he does at least have him to himself. William's on a mission though, to source a plant that produces the drug Yage (nope me neither), that's said to give the user a telepathic experience. Here the music does get interesting. Scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, although still oddly modern, it depicts perfectly William's obsessive and destructive nature. One that leads him deep into the jungle to find Dr Cotter (Lesley Manville). Who helps both William and Eugene discover things that they already knew. It's all very striking, but I'm not sure that's enough. Craig is pretty fantastic, but Queer did lose me toward the end, even though I'm a big fan of some Lynchian style surrealism. Ultimately I think Burroughs is just better on the page, but this is still an interesting adaptation.
    6SoumikBanerjee1996

    Expected better!

    I was deeply moved by Call Me by Your Name; suffice to say, it left a lasting impact on me. As a heterosexual myself, I never anticipated that a love story between two individuals of the same sex could resonate so profoundly. It opened a doorway for me and inspired me to delve deeper into other LGBTQ stories.

    Regrettably, I cannot extend the same level of admiration to "Queer."

    While the performances by Craig and Starkey are commendable, their characters or rather the storytelling at core did not resonate with me. Intricacies of the relationship too failed to evoke the kind of emotional response I was expecting.

    However, the final thirty minutes of the film provides an extraordinary experience, offering a sense of catharsis that is quite experimental, even for a filmmaker like Luca Guadagnino, who often deviates from traditional narratives.
    7andrewchristianjr

    WELL ACTED, WELL WRITTEN, BUT JUST BORING.

    Daniel Craig did a good job in his role and the scenery/asthetic was pretty cool. Beautifully filmed, but you're always going to get that with a Luca film. It was quite off-putting by how slow and languid it was. Well-acted, well written, but just boring.

    Synopsis: 1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.

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    • Trivia
      Daniel Craig was ultimately the one who convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him "That's the guy" after seeing Starkey's.
    • Goofs
      On the bar scene around minute 13-14 when William Lee (Daniel Craig) notices the centipede necklace, he lifts his glasses over his eyebrows with his left hand and hold it like that, on the follow up scene his glasses are correctly in place and his left hand not visible. The next scene when the man across from him touch William's leg, he is still holding the glasses above his eyebrows and then correctly puts it back in place.
    • Quotes

      [via telepathy]

      Eugene Allerton: I'm not queer. Lee... I'm not queer.

      William Lee: I know.

      Eugene Allerton: I'm disembodied.

    • Crazy credits
      Although every effort has been made to identify and contact all intellectual property rights holders of the materials used in the film, the producer remains available to any rights holders who were unknown or unreachable at the time of the film's production and/or in case of any unintentional omissions.
    • Alternate versions
      The Singapore release is a censored version, with 3 minutes cut due to 'explicit depictions of sexual activities between two men'. According to the local censors, 'These have exceeded the Classification Guidelines which state that "any material that is about or promotes... sexual behaviour that does not reflect current community attitudes and values in Singapore" will be refused classification.'
    • Connections
      Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Daniel Craig/Nicola Coughlan/Jesse Eisenberg/Kieran Culkin/Flo (2024)
    • Soundtracks
      All Apologies
      Written by Kurt Cobain (as Kurt Donald Cobain)

      Performed by Sinéad O'Connor

      Courtesy of Chrysalis Records Limited

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    • Release date
      • March 29, 2025 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Квір
    • Filming locations
      • Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy
    • Production companies
      • The Apartment
      • Frenesy Film Company
      • FremantleMedia North America
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,736,813
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $200,951
      • Dec 1, 2024
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,000,927
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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