Daniel Craig delivers possibly his best screen performance for director Luca Guadagnino in what is nonetheless one of the former Bond star’s least interesting and most ill-disciplined movies (and that’s including Cowboys & Aliens).
Guadagnino, hot from the flawless Challengers, has reunited with that film’s writer Justin Kuritzkes to adapt Queer, the patchy, repetitive, quasi-autobiographical and originally abandoned novel by Beat Generation icon William S Burroughs.
Nothing, alas, ages faster than hepcat recalcitrance, daddio, where countercultural activities such as drinking excessively, taking drugs, and being gay are subjects in themselves, and almost completely devoid of overarching narrative form.
It’s why previous Beatnik flicks such as On the Road, Howl, Big Sur and The Last Time I Committed Suicide have