Queer (2024) - Arvostelut

Daniel Craig is marvellous in the erotic, agonising fever dream of Queer.

Daniel Craig's narcissistic expat tests our patience.

...is a film out of its time in just about every way. That’s what’s invigorating about it.

Daniel Craig’s sweaty, sexy gay drama is far from James Bond.

…vindicates Daniel Craig as a star...

...a challenging, enthralling showcase for Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey.

Nothing in “Queer” feels egregiously incorrect or ill-considered.

Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama.

Daniel Craig is heartbreaking in Luca Guadagnino’s profound kaleidoscope of unrequited love, addiction, and ayahuasca.

...a very different beast to his earlier, tennis-based ménage à trois: less straightforwardly entertaining, murkier and messier in its intentions and approach.

Craig is fully committed to the role, and he’s surrounded by some fine actors, including a barely recognisable Jason Schwartzman, saddled with a beard, sandals and heavy girth, as one of Lee’s cronies.

Burroughs would be proud.

There’s some charm to the balls-out artifice on display; even the driblets of sweat on people’s bodies are beguilingly overdone in a Querelle-lite sort of way. And Craig certainly gives his all to Guadagnino’s vision...

When it comes to this film version, Burroughs would probably be orgasmic about his proxy, William Lee, being played by macho man Daniel Craig.

En adaption av Williams S. Burroughs delvis självbiografiska novell om queer expats i 40-talets Mexico city som känns febrig och het med en fantastisk Daniel Craig i huvudrollen.