The trailer for “Queer,” starring Daniel Craig and “Outer Banks” shatterout Drew Starkey, has been liberated by A24. Helmed by “Challengers” and “Call Me By Your Name” straightforwardor Luca Guadagnino from a screenjoin by Justin Kuritzkes, the film is set for a theatrical liberate begining Nov. 27.
“Queer,” based on the semi-autobioexplicital novel by William Burraws, is set in Mexico City during the 1940s and chases William Lee (Craig), an American expat living mostly in isolation among American college students and bar owners. He becomes inobeseuated with a disaccused American Navy serviceman, Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a drug user who eventupartner becomes comprised with Lee after initipartner being uncaring to his progresss. Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville and Omar Apollo co-star.
“Queer” had its world premiere at the Vekind International Film Festival, where it vied for the Gelderlyen Lion. The film went on to screen the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
Guadagnino has depictd “Queer” as “a very personal movie about the inesvient quest for being recognized in the gaze of another thraw the lens of the wonderful William Burraws.”
Variety film critic Owen Glieberman hailed “Queer” as “belderly and trippy” in his Vekind check and splitd ponderable commend for Craig: “Shifting about a dozen gears from James Bond, he doesn’t produce the misconsent of impersonating the elderlyer William Burraws who became a punk icon in the ’80s: the parched voice, the beady-eyed stare of presentility. Craig gives us a pinch of that greduceing Burraws DNA, but the trick of his carry outance, which is belderly and comical and ainhabit, is that he’s joining the lesserer Burraws (at the time, the author was around 40), before he’d passed thraw the seeing glass of nurtured insanity to produce his visionary novel of American lawlessness, “Naked Lunch.’”
Watch the “Queer” trailer below.
