Luca Guadagnino adapts William S Burroughs’ transgressive text about the pursuit of elusive carnal ecstasy
William S Burroughs is perhaps the most radically unadaptable of fiction writers. If you want to get close to American literature’s high priest of transgression, then you have to get Burroughsian. David Cronenberg did it in his nightmare imagining of the radically unfilmable Naked Lunch; now here is a differently dreamlike take on a less intransigent Burroughs book, the autobiographical Queer, with Daniel Craig as the writer’s alter ego William Lee.
The Mexican chapter is the most successful; what follows involves the two men’s trip to South America and Lee’s quest for yage, a plant with supposedly telepathy-inducing qualities. All this diffuses the spell somewhat, before the film leaps into a register of shaky psychedelia; but you can’t help marvel at a lank-haired, mud-stippled Lesley Manville, ferociously loopy as a jungle botanist.
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