34/14
Daniel Craig eventually convinced Luca Guadagnino to star
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He is inspired to pursue a young man named Allerton, based on Lee Adelbert Lewis Marker, who chronicles his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners who survive on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers 12 films to quickly acquire, including Anora, which premiered at the 2024 New York Film Festival, and the terrifying, intriguingly erotic Misericordia. .. After watching audition tapes with Guadagnino, Drew Starkey told him "that guy" after seeing Starkey’s..
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(2024) I’ve never seen 'Naked Lunch' (1991) but I’ve never seen 'Queer' at the 2024 London Film Festival. I kept thinking about it during the screening: William S Burroughs may have provided the source material for both films. In 1950s Mexico, William Lee, an American writer on the wrong side of the… Forty?
But what does Eugene want?
Fifty? He spends his days getting drunk, shooting, and having casual sex with other men. One day, a muscular, talented young hunk named Eugene walks into a bar and Lee is hit on. And there’s a telepathic drug that can make you think…
With an accent that’s clearly not his own
Stylistically, I’m not sure what director Luca Guadagnino is trying to achieve with this film. The sets are decorated almost exclusively in block colors – dark red and olive green, for example – and have that vaguely unrealistic, clean, technical look that I thought was intended to pay homage to the films of the era in which the film is set. But if that’s the case, why the decidedly 1950s rock and techno soundtrack? Daniel Craig (is it my imagination or is he starting to sound like Sid James?) has to constantly deliver absurd speeches in the lead role.
It’s okay to watch it once, but I won’t watch it again
Drew Starkey is able to give a subtle performance as the manipulative Eugene, and certainly looks the part Preppy. Leslie Manville is unrecognizable as a doctor living in the South American jungle – well done to the makeup team! This is the kind of film that I feel is more about the artistic style than the storytelling substance.
