New Release
Queer
Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s latest erotic drama based on the William Burroughs novel of the same name.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast includes: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Leslie Manville, Jason Schwartzman
Thursday morning screenings include hot drink with your ticket and subtitles where possible
146 mins / 2024 / usa/italy
**Please note, due to the release date for Queer having been changed, we have swapped our screenings with I'm Still Here from our original screening dates for Queer. We are sorry for any disappointment caused. **
Queer will now screen on:
Thursday 29th May at 11am
Saturday 31st May at 7.30pm
Queer is a story of lost love and last love and mad-about-the-boy obsession, featuring an excellent performance from Daniel Craig who plays Lee, an expatriate American based on Burroughs himself – the resemblance is made more overt in a Kubrickian sequence giving him a succession of hallucinatory flashforwards into old age.
Lee lives cheaply and indolently after the second world war, hanging around bars, drinking, doing drugs and picking up guys. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.
The film is adapted by screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes from the autobiographical novel by William Burroughs, and wonderfully shot by cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom with digitally rendered landscapes and streetscapes that bring the boozy, bleary reality into alignment with the many (disquieting) dream sequences.
Thursday morning screenings will include subtitles wherever possible.
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