Queer trailer: Daniel Craig looks unrecognisable in new film

Queer trailer: Daniel Craig looks unrecognisable in new film

Queer trailer

Set for a release next month in November, Daniel Craig starrer Queer dropped its first official trailer. The trailer for Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey starrer looks wholesome.

Queer is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by William Burroughs. It is set in Mexico City during the 1940s and follows William Lee, an American expat living mostly in isolation among American college students and bar owners.

Queer trailer

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The trailer shows Daniel's character slowly becoming infatuated with a discharged American Navy serviceman, Eugene Allerton, a drug user who eventually becomes involved with Lee after initially being indifferent to his advances.

The official synopsis of Queer reads, “1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City in his early 50s, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, a young student new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.”

The film also stars Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville and Omar Apollo.

Queer is directed by Luca Guadagnino of Call Me By Your Name fame.

Queer had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion. It received rave reviews at the festival. The film then went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.

Queer set to release in November

About the film, Luca said, “How can a man who sees and feels be other than sad?” William Burroughs asks in the last entry of his personal diary before his death. In adapting his second novel, published almost forty years after he wrote it, we have tried to respond to this humble appeal of the great iconoclast of the beat generation. Lee loves Allerton, Allerton loves Lee: they will be able to meet despite all the missteps and fears that act on both of them in their picaresque journey in South America projected by Burroughs’ mind?"

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Queer is set to be released in theatres on November 27.

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