Have you ever asked yourself How to film emotions properly? How to distill pain and hope and unhappy longing in pictures? And did you also always want to know what Daniel Craig has on the box when he doesn’t embodied a funny detective role and not an action hero? Then we would have an answer to all of these questions in exactly one film.
Luca Guadagnino’s latest stroke of genius impressively demonstrates what a director and his leading actors can get out of the deepest human emotions. More atmospheric than Call Me by your name, more invited than Challengers and Ignore the Oscar-Jury-but at least very relaxed at Mubi Streambar. This is queer. And that should be looked at by as many as possible.
Streaming tip: In Queer, Daniel Craig goes to the search for meaning, love and a future as a banished
Mexico city is pretty to look at in the tranquil hours of sunshine and against the backdrop of the 1950s. Pretty and very lonely, if you like lee (Craig) as a fled, in many places due to his sexuality avoided, aging man stripped aimlessly. Lee is constantly looking for something. What does not know exactly himself.
But he tries hard to find this something. In the bar around the corner, in quick sex, in drugs of all kinds, in mysterious shaman rituals. Nothing helps, nothing makes being alone to be bearable. Behind the somewhat awkward appearance, a razor -sharp mind and the poetic spirit of a writer slumbers. But also an eternal hungry darkness.
When Lee then unexpectedly hits the ex-soldier Allerton (Drew Starkey), everything pulls him to the attractive young man without exception. Curiosity becomes obsessiona complicated relationship from an encounter. For Lee there seems to be only two options: either this obsession finally heals it – or it breaks.
Queer on Mubi is beautiful for howling, painful for screaming and neglected
Hardly any film in recent years feels as infinitely painful and as captivating as queer. Guadagnino has a unique hand for capturing longing and attraction, so it may be miscall – and for the development of intimacy and conflict from this emotional cocktail. Always served with a fatal pinch of hope. And the fiftieth cigarette of the day.
Craig crosses the film in constant isolation, no matter how tight and erotic skin hugs skin. This despair hurts both through the picturesque staging and Craig’s unique spectacle when watching – and yet is a delightful dream change through the Incredibly intensive scenes. Blasphemy borders that none of this was appreciated in the latest Oscar nominations.
Queer is philosophical, cool, musically brilliantly underlaid, poetically and cruelly understandable for everyone who is only approximately human. Oh yes, and then the third act of the film comes to one completely new level lifts. The longing in a drug-tripping metaphoric images grabs that feel this feeling as perfectly on canvas than anything ever before. Sadness can be so beautiful.
If you want to have this absolutely worth seeing experience of a sad and yet beguiling emotional strip, you can currently do this with Mubi.