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Story

Lee, who chronicles his life in Mexico City among American expat students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits, is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers quick previews of 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous and oddly erotic Misericordia. Daniel Craig is ultimately the one who convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him, “He’s the guy,” after seeing Starkey. (2024). QUEER has strong echoes of the same director’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME.

He is played, superbly, by Daniel Craig

The central character in both films is unambiguously gay, while the object of his desire is more elusive. As in the previous film, we are not in America, but among Americans. However, while the protagonist of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME was a sexually driven teenager, here we focus on a middle-aged writer addicted to drugs and alcohol. The first part of QUEER involves a question of will/won’t as Craig’s character, William Lee, desires/desires the fresh-faced ex-soldier Eugene Allerton, played, superbly, by Drew Starkey. With excellent support from Jason Schwartzman and Drew Droege, who play other local cafe and bar denizens, the film maintains a brisk pace.

Cotter, whom they find deep in the jungle doing research

The screenplay (Justin Kuritzkes, based on the book by William S. Burrough) and the direction are as sure-footed as one could expect. But the film shifts into high gear in the final third, when Lee and Allerton go on a field trip to find a plant that Lee believes could unlock humans’ telepathic abilities. This unlikely adventure eventually leads to an encounter with a Dr. Dr.

She’s simply magnificent

Cotter is played, in a stunning performance, by the great Lesley Manville, who is unrecognizable at first, so complete is her transformation. It’s fascinating how even a great actor like Daniel Craig is, unfortunately, somewhat diminished by a great actress like Manville in a role that showcases her to the fullest. She’s just doing her job. Give that woman an Oscar, please. QUEER is meticulously made, has many remarkable sequences, and owes an interesting debt, as Guardagnino himself has said, to the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Go see QUEER, though

It’s a film about a deep desire to connect, even merge, with another human being. In that sense, like the best of Powell and Pressburger, it’s massively romantic. To some, that might seem overly romantic. For me, the difference between, say, BLACK NARCISSUS or A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH and this film is that I came away having simply watched QUEER rather than being swept away by it the way I was by CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, which is, I admit, a lesser film. It’s worth seeing.