This new film from the director of Challengers is set in a bohemian Mexico City in the 1950s - and shows the vast beauty a fleeting love affair can provide
Drew Starkey as Eugene Allerton and Daniel Craig as William Lee is an entirely different prospect in terms of style and story, but one well suited to Guadagnino’s explicit but sensitive portrayals of lust, sexuality and sublimated power plays. The film grabbed splashy headlines when it premiered in Venice this year for starring Daniel Craig,, as the gay protagonis.; I’m pleased to report that Craig is fantastic as Lee, the crumpled, love-starved, swaggering hero.
Based on William S Burrough’s slim, hedonistic novella of the same name, which focused on the daily exploits and love affairs of a group of gay men who found refuge and a bohemian safe haven in 1950s Mexico City, Guadagnino’s film has a heady, sun-soaked, boozy air, all sweat-crinkled linen suits and lustful gazes over tiny glasses of beer.
Anyone who’s been paying attention to Craig’s career will note this is not the first role he’s taken that undercuts traditional machismo. In, he played a lover to artist Francis Bacon. He has long shown an interest in sexually ambiguous roles, and here he is able to explore that with sensitivity, humour, and free-wheeling open-endedness.is scabrous and drug-filled, and Guadagnino is unafraid to depict an oral sex session on the big scree.
It’s a risk tonally, and the pair’s travel exploits are perhaps less interesting than the first half of the film, but the results – Lee’s yearning for Eugene’s love and Eugene ultimately pulling away from it – are still heartbreaking to watch unfold, culminating in a wild rainforest trip .in some ways, with fewer structured plot points and more adventurous hangout time. But it rewards the viewer with a sense of the vast beauty – and sadness – a fleeting love affair might provide.
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