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'Queer,' with Daniel Craig, Is Many Things: Captivating, Alienating, Sorrowful, and Erotic

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59% Informative

Luca Guadagnino 's new film Queer premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday .

Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs , Queer is a strange and despondent look at a man wasting away from desire.

The film is a riot of style and technique, growing ever more surreal as Lee chases after Gene .

As the movie tips into ever more strangeness, Guadagnino untethers the film from time and space.

The climactic ayahuasca scene is a kind of modern dance piece, two fire-lit men melding and pulling apart.

Queer is meant to be prickly, withholding, enigmatic.

VR Score

60

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59

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51

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informal

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English

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45

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medium-lived

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