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Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Is More Challenging Than You Might Expect
For such a hot movie, this Daniel Craig-starring William S. Burroughs adaptation sure feels emotionally sealed off.
The pair weren’t meant to be an intentional double feature — Challengers was originally slated for a 2023 release until the strike pushed it back — but the two end up functioning as a survey of Guadagnino’s inexhaustible interest in the topic of desire. And in the new one (also written by Justin Kuritzkes), the yearning is the focus, a force so all-consuming that it sends its main character down to the jungles of Ecuador in search of a drug he hopes will give him telepathic insights into the mind of the object of his obsession. Slim in his fitted shirts and pleated pants, flawless as a model, and magically untouched by the heat that gets to everyone else, Eugene glides through William’s favorite bar and into his heart, though the nature of his sexuality is left as unclear as his interest in the man who becomes his dogged though never explicit suitor.
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