From Luca Guadagnino, director and producer, Queer is an adaptation of William Burrough’s book by the same title. The film stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Academy-Award® nominee Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga, Omar Apollo, Andra Ursuta, Andres Duprat, Ariel Shulman, Drew Droege, Michael Borremans, David Lowery, Lisandro Alonso and Colin Bates.
It’s 1950, and 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 finally be possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.
“”How can a man who sees and feels be other than sad?” William Burroughs asks himself in the last entry of his personal diary before his death. In adapting his second novel, published almost forty years after its completion, we have attempted to reply to this sombre invocation by the great icon of the beat generation. Lee loves Allerton, Allerton loves Lee, and they will manage to meet despite all the missteps and fears that act upon both in their picaresque journey through South America as projected by the mind of Burroughs.”
Luca Guadagnino
Queer Reviews
“Soul-swellingly lush and allusive… Daniel Craig is sensational in a role swimming in psychological complexity” ★★★★★ The Daily Telegraph
“Daniel Craig is strangely magnificent.” ★★★★ The Guardian
“A frantic rush of hedonism suffused with a beautiful melancholy” ★★★★ Financial Times
