Queer: Daniel Craig shines in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy drama

Queer: Daniel Craig shines in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy drama

Premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and starring Daniel Craig as a homosexual drug addict, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a faithful dive into the universe of author William Burroughs.

Daniel Craig Gets Explicit (and Romantic) in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’

If you know Daniel Craig only as James Bond, “Queer” is liable to throw you for a loop. In this new film from Luca Guadagnino, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, Craig, 56, plays a drug addict whose sexual escapades and heroin use are filmed with matter-of-fact candor. But if you knew Craig even before he was pressed into Her Majesty’s Secret Service — when he was still an up-and-coming young actor who appeared in risky, sex…

10 WILD quotes about 'Queer' from the cast that have us FERAL for Luca Guadagnino's film

Luca Guadagnino's Queer premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, and we have every reason to be jealous of the lucky few who've already gotten to see it.The film is an adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, penned by Challengers scribe Justin Kuritzkes. Set in Mexico City in the 1950s, it follows American ex-pat William Lee (Daniel Craig) as his life is shaken up by the arrival of a young student named Eugene Alle…

‘Queer’ Review: Daniel Craig Shows a Whole New Side in Luca Guadagnino’s Bold and Trippy Adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ Ahead-of-Its-Time Novel

In “Queer,” Luca Guadagnino’s ebulliently scuzzy and adventurous adaptation of William S. Burrough’s early confessional novel, William Lee (Daniel Craig), a dissipated refugee from America, is having dinner with Eugene (Drew Starkey), the beautiful young man he met in the underbelly of Mexico City, when he starts to explain how he came to grips with his sexual desires. Lee, who wears white linen suits, a fedora and clear-framed glasses, a trus…

‘Queer’ Review: Daniel Craig Burns a Hole in the Screen With Obsessive Desire in Luca Guadagnino’s Trippy Gay Odyssey

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey star in Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer,' adapted from William S.

‘Queer’ Clip: First Look At Daniel Craig In Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burroughs Adaptation

Here’s your first look at Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, which debuts this evening in Venice. Have a look above. Craig plays William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties who leads a solitary life amidst a small working-class and collegiate community in 1950s Mexico City. However, the arrival of Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a young student, […]