007 is a thing of the past! Daniel Craig is making money with his homoerotic film

Luca Guadagnino, known for his films Challengers and Call Me by Your Name, has adapted a sultry novel by American pop culture icon William S. Burroughs into a film. Queer, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, stars Daniel Craig as Burroughs' alter ego, giving what the Financial Times calls "the best performance of his life." But how well can the former James Bond carry the film and truly shine in this completely different role?

Luca Guadagnino, at his ninth feature film, arrives at the cinema with “Queer”, based on the novel of the same name by William Burroughs, making us lose ourselves in a whirlwind of alcohol, drugs, sweat and passion. After the extraordinary success of his latest film Challengers, released in theaters last April, our filmmaker returns behind the camera with his most personal work.

For Burroughs, it had been a painful book, shelved for decades, not only for fear of the obscenity mark. In the movie William Lee is a breathtaking Daniel Craig. Guadagnino is one of the few directors able to develop an aesthetic of eroticism that challenges taboos without giving in to voyeurism. “The book is almost a machine illustrating inner repression, and at the same time it disseminates clues to suggest that behind the repression there is …