Look, Queer!

As expected Luca Guadagnino's next movie, the William S. Burroughs adaptation Queer (see my previous posts here), will be premiering at the Venice Film Fest in a couple of months -- more importantly to me though since I won't be going to the Venice Film Fest in a couple of months is they released the first image from the movie, seen in full below. The film stars Daniel Craig (he can be seen in the doorway in dark shirt) and Drew Starkey -- I'm pretty sure that is Starkey from the back taking the photo -- and it's about a love affair between two men in Mexico City in the early 1950s. Guadagnino has called the film his most personal to date, as well as a triubte to Powell & Pressburger movies (!!!), and he's also claimed that it's going to have a heap of sex scenes as well. In other words GIMME GIMME GIMME.

ETA the director of Venice talked to Variety today about the fest's just announced line-up and how horny it is this year, and added this tidbit regarding what we were just talking about with Queer (he also calls it Craig's greatest performance to date and says he predicts he'll be in the running for an Oscar):

"In this film, too, we are in the realm of great, absolute frankness, of absence of prejudices, of the ability to address these issues in a direct, explicit manner. And the fact that Daniel Craig lent himself to a couple of very explicit erotic sequences is a sign of great courage in an era in which these behaviors are still rejected by a significant part of the audience."