QUEER
Winner, Best Actor (Daniel Craig), 2024 National Board of Review Awards; Nominee, Best Performance by a Male Actor – Drama (Daniel Craig), 2025 Golden Globes; Nominee, Best Actor (Daniel Craig), 2025 Critics Choice Awards
Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, CHALLENGERS) spin on William S. Burroughs' autobiographical novel matches its source material in vulnerability and taboo-smashing adventurousness to create a hallucinogenic odyssey bathed in desire. In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee (Daniel Craig) leads a solitary life as an American expat in his late 40s. He is a consummate raconteur who has no trouble finding an audience, but he is also a desperately lonely addict with an alarming fondness for guns. When he becomes infatuated with newly arrived student Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), he sets his sights on a journey to the Amazon, which will yield a string of unexpected encounters for the two men. Adapted by Justin Kuritzkes (who wrote Guadagnino's CHALLENGERS), QUEER is both faithful to the book and a radical re-imagining. Period detail is offset by anachronistic needle drops and a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, while an eerie epilogue alludes to the real-life tragedy that prompted Burroughs' writing career. (Note adapted from the Toronto International Film Festival.) DIR/PROD Luca Guadagnino; SCR Justin Kuritzkes, from the novella by William S. Burroughs. PROD Lorenzo Mieli. Italy/U.S., 2024, color, 135 min. In English, Spanish and French with English subtitles. RATED R
Run Time: 135 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, February 14, 2025
Genre: Drama
