Queer (titled onscreen as William S. Burroughs' Queer) is a 2024 period romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs.

Feb 13, 2025 · Queer: Directed by Luca Guadagnino. With Daniel Craig, Daan de Wit, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga. In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community.

Dec 14, 2024 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino and based on the 1985 novella of the same name by William S. Burroughs, Queer takes the audience to 1950s México City to meet Lee, an outcast among other queer people, who spends his time visiting the city’s clubs and trying to find new (and younger) sex partners.

Oct 6, 2024 · Luca Guadagnino’s wildly ambitious adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s cornerstone of transgressive gay literature finds the Italian director in formidable, gutsy mode, casting Daniel Craig in a transformative performance as Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, pursuing his erotic desires among American expatriates in post-World War II ...

Feb 14, 2025 · With Daniel Craig going from Bond to a homosexual writer, Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’ follows a steamy dynamic descend into a surreal exploration of being queer

Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Queer (2024), approaches the lyric’s conceit literally. In Queer, the protagonist wants to physically inhabit his lover’s body, mind, and soul to see their shared life as his emotionally distant lover sees it. Here, the “whatever hurts” slices deeper than flesh wounds—“whatever hurts” are festering ...

Dec 12, 2024 · Drew Droege plays John Dumé in Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' "Queer." As for the film's title and the word "queer," Droege has a complicated history. "I hated being...

With Queer, his adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel, Guadagnino delivers one of his most audacious projects yet—an unflinching exploration of queer identity, obsession, and alienation that challenges the boundaries of mainstream cinema.

Queer (2024) Explained | Set in 1950s Mexico with anachronistic music choices, Queer crafts a visceral tale of celluloid, flesh, and vice, blending film noir with ’70s character studies while breathing new life into queer romance. ... Luca Guadagnino’s frequency once again encircles the objects of our obsessions, and while familiar ground ...

Nov 27, 2024 · In the second act of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer (2024) – the beautiful, maddening film adaptation of beat generation legend William S. Burroughs’s 1985 autofiction text of the same name – two men, Eugene (teen soap heartthrob Drew Starkey) and Lee (Daniel Craig), sit together in a dark movie theatre to watch Jean Cocteau’s Orphée (1950).