Queer

Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers) returns with his most personal film yet, a hypnotic odyssey of taboo-smashing adventurousness.

Daniel Craig takes the lead in this adaptation of Beat icon William S. Burroughs' autobiographical novella, portraying Lee, an American expat navigating the bars and backstreets of 1950s Mexico City in a haze of solitude and illicit substances. Everything changes when he meets—and falls hard for—Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a handsome yet elusive former soldier. New to the city, Allerton makes Lee consider, for the first time, the possibility of establishing an intimate connection with someone.

Together, they embark on a trip deep into the Amazon, chasing the mystical possibilities of telepathic ayahuasca, and journey into the heart of desire itself. Their travels will yield a string of unexpected encounters and provide Lee with sobering life lessons. Adapted by Justin Kuritzkes (who also wrote Guadagnino’s Challengers), Queer is both faithful to its source material and a radical re-imagining. Through it all, Craig makes Lee his own, creating a fully lived-in protagonist whose unruly obsessions lead to something akin to enlightenment.