Queer (titled onscreen as William S. Burroughs' Queer) is a 2024 period romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs.

Queer: Directed by Luca Guadagnino. With Daniel Craig, Daan de Wit, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga. In 1950s Mexico City, an American ex-pat in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community.

In his wildly ambitious adaptation, Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, NYFF55) expertly evokes the book’s post–World War II time period and cinematically translates Burroughs’s iconoclasm with panache. In a transformative role, Daniel Craig immerses himself into Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, a habitual heroin user luxuriating ...

Sep 3, 2024 · In “Queer,” Luca Guadagnino’s ebulliently scuzzy and adventurous adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ early confessional novel, William Lee (Daniel Craig), a dissipated refugee from America ...

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Nov 27, 2024 · And so I was truly dreading seeing Luca Guadagnino’s $53 million Queer, an adaptation of this unfinished autobiographical novel.

Jan 18, 2025 · Dir. Luca Guadagnino — 3.5 Stars. Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in Luca Guadagnino's newest film, "Queer." By Courtesy A24 Films. By Khadijah Olufayo, Crimson Staff Writer.

Nov 27, 2024 · The star kills off his Bond to inhabit a dissolute American expat in Luca Guadagnino’s handsome adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella.

Aug 27, 2024 · In the director’s chair for Queer is none other than Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, Call Me by Your Name, Bones and All, We Are Who We Are), fresh off the serve that was...

Sep 3, 2024 · Luca Guadagnino ‘s adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella “ Queer,” which premieres Tuesday in competition at the Venice Film Festival, is his most personal film yet — and one that...