Film: Queer
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 137 min

“Queer” attempts to adapt Author William S. Burroughs deeply personal novel about lust, addiction, and even telepathy. But the resultant is not exactly kosher. “Queer” feels a bit too manufactured to be genuinely moving or entrancing. The runtime is also too long for it to be a comfortable watch.

Adapted by Justin Kurtizkes, Burroughs autobiographical novel, was written in the mid-1950s. Luca Guadagnino, the director of “Call Me By Your Name” and “Challengers” has made yet another good-looking film with great production design, art direction, period specific costumes, piercing cinematography and a background score that embeds Sinead O’Connor and Nirvana among others but the narrative feels rather hollow and functions in a vacuum.