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The upcoming movie Queer gets a rave review from the director of the Venice Film Festival. Queer is an upcoming film from Call Me By Your Name and Challengers director Luca Guadagnino that tells the story of a romance between a man named Lee and a younger man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker. Queer‘s leading cast includes Daniel Craig in the role of Lee and Drew Starkey as Allerton, with a supporting cast that includes Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, David Lowery, Henrique Zaga, and Lisandro Alonso.
Speaking with Vanity Fair, the Venice Film Festival director hypes up Queer in advance of the film’s premiere at the festival. Check out the full quote below:
It’s not an easy film. It’s very bold, again. I don’t know if you are familiar with the book or not. It’s a short novel that was published only in 1985, right after the death of William Burroughs. It’s a very autobiographical novel when Burroughs was a drug addict and a gay man, and he was forced to leave Texas. He went to Mexico City, and he started to cruise in the bars and the restaurants trying to find company. The film is fantastic. I think it’s the best film by Luca Guadagnino so far, and the performance of Danny Craig is absolutely outstanding. I think it’s the performance of his life. He’s a great, great actor, and he takes some risks, of course, because it’s something that’s not in line with his previous films.
There were three versions of the film. The first one was more than three hours long. The second one was two and one half. The final version is two hours and 15 minutes. I haven’t seen the last one, but the two versions I saw were really, really amazing. Luca reconstructed Mexico City in Cinecittá, in Rome, so the visual is completely abstract, is not realistic. Again, it’s very personal, very original, beautiful from the visual point of view. And all the performances are absolutely outstanding.
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Source: VF
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