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He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, based on Adelbert Lewis Marker

Chronology

Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expat college students and bar owners who got by on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers snapshots of the 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, strangely erotic Misericordia. .. Daniel Craig eventually landed the role of Luca Guadagnino after Drew Starkey’s audition was taped with Guadagnino declaring «That’s the guy.» after seeing Starkey..

Reference close-up: Why do we need the Venice Film Festival?

(2024). I’ve never seen a 'naked lunch' (1991) but I often thought about it during the 2024 London Film Festival ‘Queer’ screening: probably to be expected as William S Burroughs provided the source material for both films. In the 1950s' Mexico City, William Lee, American author of…the wrong side of forty? Fifty?

But what does Yevgeny himself want?

Spends days getting drunk, shooting and having casual sex with other men. One day, a muscular, intelligent young man, Eugene, walks into the bar, and Lee is shocked. Plus there’s the telepathic drugs to think about… I’m not sure what director Luca Guadagnino is trying to achieve stylistically with this film.

with an accent that is clearly not his own

The sets are decorated almost exclusively in block colors — dull reds and olive greens, for example — and have an unreal, pure Technicolor look that led me to believe it was intended to pay homage to the era in which the film is set. But if that’s the case, why is the decidedly non-fifties rock and techno soundtrack Daniel Craig (is it my imagination or is he starting to look like Sid James?) thrust into the lead role as he has to keep talking nonsense? Drew Starkey is able to give a more nuanced performance as the manipulative Eugene and certainly looks prepared. Leslie Manville is unrecognizable as the South American Jungle Doctor — well done to the makeup team!

It was good to see it once, but I won’t watch it again

This is the kind of movie that I feel is more about the artistic style than the story.