The Venice Film Festival showered Luca Guadagnino‘s new film Queer with lots of love and a 9½-minute standing ovation for star Daniel Craig at its world premiere last night.
Craig, who broke away from his James Bond persona for a provocative and challenging role, looked emotional at several points as his wife, Rachel Weisz, stood beaming and shouting in unison with the crowd.
Based on the novel by William S. Burroughs, Queer is set in 1950s Mexico City, where the action follows Craig’s character William Lee, an American expat in his mid-50s leading a solitary existencere. Addicted to opiates and alcohol, his life changes when a young man, Drew Starkey’s Eugene Allerton, arrives on the scene, stirring Craig’s character into earth-shattering infatuation.
The film, sprinkled with racy, fleetingly full-frontal scenes,
culminates in the search for a drug that William believes will let him
communicate with Eugene telepathically.
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