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How Explicit Are the Sex Scenes in Queer?
Ahead of the film’s Venice premiere, Guadagnino called his new film’s sex scenes “numerous and quite scandalous,” and this was not false advertising.
An adaptation of the semi-autobiographical William S. Burroughs novel, the movie stars Daniel Craig as Lee, a lonely expat in 1950s Mexico obsessed with a young hunk (Drew Starkey) who may or may not return his affections. In the press conference, Guadagnino hailed the “generosity” of his leading man: “Very few iconic actors allow their fragility to be seen.” This vulnerability is evident not just in the fact that in Queer, the former James Bond is playing a bisexual heroin addict. After sex, he can’t stop himself from asking his partner, “Do you not mind this terribly?” (The response is hardly reassuring: “Not terribly.”) He’s down so bad that music from the ‘50s cannot contain him; only through the power of Nirvana can we truly comprehend his horniness.
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