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Lee, which chronicles his life in Mexico City among American expat students and bar owners who survive on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is forced to court a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian gives brief reviews of 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, strangely erotic Misericordia. Daniel Craig was ultimately the one who convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching Guadagnino’s audition tapes and telling him, “That’s the guy” after watching Starkey. (2024). QUEER has strong echoes of the same director’s THE SAME NAME ONE.
He is played brilliantly by Daniel Craig
The main character in both films is clearly gay, while the object of his desire is more elusive. As in the previous film, we are not in America, but we are among Americans. But whereas the hero in THAT NAME was a sexually pulsating teenager, here the focus is on a middle-aged writer addicted to drugs and alcohol. The first half of QUEER is will-they?/won't-they, as Craig's character, William Lee, yearns for/lusts for a fresh-faced ex-soldier named Eugene Allerton, played brilliantly by Drew Starkey. With excellent support from Jason Schwartzman and Drew Droege, playing other local coffeehouse and bar residents, the film maintains a steady pace. The screenplay (Justin Kuritzkes, based on the book by William S.
Burrough) and direction are as assured as expected
But the film kicks into high gear in the final third, when Lee and Allerton embark on a road trip to find a plant that Lee believes can unlock human telepathy. This unlikely adventure eventually ends with an encounter with a certain Dr. Seuss. Cotter, whom they find deep in the jungle, conducting research. Dr. A.S.
She is simply magnificent
Cotter is played, in a stunning performance, by the wonderful Lesley Manville, unrecognizable at first, so complete is her transformation. It is fascinating that even a great actor like Daniel Craig is, unfortunately, somewhat diminished by a great actor like Manville in a role that shows her to the maximum. She does nothing but work. Give this woman an Oscar, please. QUEER is made with great care, has many extraordinary sequences and is an interesting debt, as Guardagnino himself has stated, to the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It is a film about the deep desire to connect, even to the point of fusion, with another human being.
a worse film
In this sense, again like the best of Powell and Pressburger, it is immensely romantic. To some it may 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 out of it just watching QUEER, and not being swept away like I was with THAT NAME, which is, I admit, . But go see QUEER. It’s worth seeing. Check out our list of exciting new films from this year’s film festivals, including Venice, TIFF, The New York Film Festival, and more.
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