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Queer review: Hats off to Daniel Craig, BRIAN VINER reviews the same sex romance as James Bond shrugs off the image of Ian Fleming's ultra-heterosexual alpha-male super-spy


The 56-year-old star could hardly be trying harder, after those five James Bond films in 15 years, to shrug off the image of Ian Fleming's ultra-heterosexual alpha-male super-spy.

At first he isn’t entirely sure whether Gene shares his ‘proclivities’, and refrains from making a move while director Luca Guadagnino very artfully uses camera and editing-suite trickery to show how Lee is yearning to do with his body what he yet can’t. Drew Starkey, Omar Apollo, Jonathan Anderson, Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Justin Kuritzkes, Daniel Craig, Luca Guadagnino (pictured L-R) But it yields its most extraordinary performance, from Lesley Manville as an alarmingly formidable, borderline-unhinged American botanist and doctor who has long since gone native, is embedded in the jungle, and knows how to satisfy her questful visitors.

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