Venice Is Buzzing Over Daniel Craig’s Explicit Gay Sex Scenes in ‘Queer’
There are many of us who, whether or not we’d like to admit, watched director Luca Guadagnino’s gorgeously erotic coming-of-age gay love story Call Me By Your Name, started to get hot and bothered when the film’s big sex scene started, and then, when the camera cut to the window just as things started to get explicit, groaned, “C’mon!!!”
Those exasperated shouts must have been loud and frequent, because Guadagnino seems to be cheekily addressing them in his new film Queer, which just debuted to raves—and throbbing libidos—at the Venice Film Festival.
Queer is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel, written in the ’50s but not published until 1985, about a junkie ex-pat named Bill Lee (Daniel Craig) living in Mexico City chasing the high of hard drugs and sex with the hard-bodied men he encounters—especially Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a handsome Navy serviceman from Florida.