AroView: Daniel Craig is drop dead brilliant as the alter ego of William S. Burroughs in this drama based on the author’s 1985 novella about an American émigré looking for meaningful romantic connection in 1950’s Mexico City.

Billed as “a Luca Guadagnino love story”, the Italian director of Call Me By Your Name and I Am Love serves the material with heightened sensitivity, sensuality and style, extending to the anachronistic yet sublime needle drops from the likes of Nirvana, Prince, Sinead O’Connor and New Order. It’s not only a treat for gay audiences but for cinephiles as well.

“Luca Guadagnino meets William S. Burroughs on the iconoclast’s own slippery terms and the result is mesmerizing.” ~David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Queer doesn’t scrimp on provocation and pleasure, but it’s also a beautiful film about male loneliness, and the way a solitary life can so easily shade into a life sentence.” ~Robbie Collin, The Telegraph