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 immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community.

Luca Guadagnino’s wildly ambitious adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s cornerstone of transgressive gay literature finds the Italian director in formidable, gutsy mode, casting Daniel Craig in a transformative performance as Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, pursuing his erotic desires among American expatriates in post-World War II ...

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 ...

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...

Jan 13, 2025 · Hazy visions, phantom touches, souls lingering where you left them; Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” is a mesmerizing encapsulation of what it means to love, and to lose.

Sep 3, 2024 · When Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name came out in 2017, the director was criticised for the coyness of the two male lovers' sex scenes. Even the film's screenwriter, James Ivory, argued...

Dec 6, 2024 · The words that inspired this image—ectoplasmic fingers and a phantom thumb—were written by William S. Burroughs in his 1985 semi-autobiographical novella Queer, which Guadagnino, now 53, read...

Dec 5, 2024 · Luca Guadagnino’s Queer: a sexy thwarted romance. Daniel Craig is cast against type in this stylish adaptation of William Burroughs’ novel. Plus: Nightbitch and We Live in Time.

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...