Film: Queer [2024] – Daniel Craig, Daan de Wit

Queer [2024] - Daniel Craig, Daan de Wit

Queer is clearly a passion project that was made for Daniel Craig to showcase his talents. He deserves the awards. The movie? Not so much.


Starring Daniel Craig & Daan de Wit, director Luca Guadagnino clearly had an idea with this movie: Explore queer relationships in the 1950s. Based on the book of the same name, the movie is divided into 3 chapters, and an epilogue. A slow burner that takes us, the viewers, through courtship, travels, and whatever the last two parts were about.

This is a story about the yearning desire to make a proper connection with another human being, that happens to be Queer. The movie centres itself around one of Daniel Craig’s best-ever performances. It’s one of the most marvelous and erotic performances I’ve seen in movies in a while.

As an older queer man, he’s perfect. Unsure of himself, craving intimacy, and giving blowjobs in Mexico. In fact, James Bond giving handjobs in Mexico is sort of like more historically-accurate James Bond. This A24 movie can easily be considered as Craig’s career best performance so far.

However, at 2 hours and 17 minutes, the movie is a little bloated, though the expansiveness and inventiveness of the filmmaking make that sound like complaining about too much dessert. The visuals are impecable, the actors (mostly) deliver great performances, yet something felt off.

As much as I understood the first two parts enough to interpret them in my own way, the last two part didn’t make any sense. If Craig’s character had a terminal illness, that would have made a lot more sense.

Queer – Official Trailer
Should you watch it?

Queer is a beautifully empty narrative. Craig’s performance is an ongoing reminder of the versatility he’s always had as an actor. It’s too bad, then, that the movie feels shallow and lacking in any real chemistry between the leads.

Where can I watch it?

Queer is now playing in limited theaters.

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