36/40
He is forced to pursue a young man named Allerton, based on Adelbert Lewis Marker
Plot
Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expat college students and bar owners who survived on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers a quick rundown of the 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, oddly erotic Misericordia. .. Luca Guadagnino stated in an interview that Queer is a project he has wanted to implement since he was 20 years old.
Close-up reference: Why do we need the Venice Film Festival?
(2024). I’ve never seen a 'Full Lunch' (1991), but I found myself thinking about it often at the 2024 London Film Festival screening of Queer: perhaps to be expected, as William S Burroughs provided the source material for both films. In the 1950s' Mexico, William Lee, American writer from the wrong side of…forty? Fifty?
But what does Yevgeny himself want?
They spend their days getting drunk, shooting and having casual sex with other men. One day, a muscular, smart young dude walks into the bar and Lee is smitten. Plus there’s the telepathic drug to think about… I’m not sure what director Luca Guadagnino is trying to achieve stylistically with this film.
with an accent clearly not his own
The sets are decorated almost exclusively in block colors – dull reds and olive greens, for example – and have a vaguely unreal, pure Technicolor look that led me to believe the intention was to pay homage to 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 look like Sid James?) is a blast in the lead role as he constantly has to come up with nonsense. Drew Starkey is able to give a more nuanced performance as the manipulative Eugene and certainly looks the part.
It was good to see once, but I won’t be watching it again
Leslie Manville is unrecognizable as a doctor living in a South American jungle – well done to the makeup team! This is the kind of movie that I feel is more about the artistic style than the story. Check out our list of exciting new movies from this year’s film festivals, including Venice, TIFF, New York Film Festival and more.