The New York Film Festival announced that Luca Guadagnino's Queer will be the Spotlight Gala of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its U.S. premiere.
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The film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel, written by Justin Kuritzkes, stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, and David Lowery. Written in the early 1950s but not published until 1985, Queer is considered a canonical work in the Beat Generation author's career and a cornerstone of transgressive gay literature.
“Luca Guadagnino is one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile filmmakers, and one of its greatest risk-takers,” said NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. “Queer is his most fearless, inventive and surprising film, one that brings his subcultural world to life and creates the role of a lifetime for the amazing Daniel Craig.”
Craig plays Burroughs' alter ego William Lee, a heroin user in a ragtag group of gay American expats in Mexico City in the late 1940s. When enigmatic, preppy ex-military boy Eugene Allerton (Starkey) catches Lee's eye, he's thrust into a love affair and an odyssey that takes the pair into the Ecuadorian jungle in search of the ultimate high.
