‘Queer’, Luca Guadagnino’s New Gay Romance
Wednesday marked Luca Guadagnino’s highly anticipated arrival to Venice. With his latest film, the Italian director makes us travel back in time, to the 1950s, through the story William Lee, a fifty-year-old American expat in Mexico City, who loses his mind over Eugene, a newly arrived young and mysterious student. Based on William S. Burroughs’s novel, ‘Queer’ is a visionary and personal work.
The film cast made its appearance at the Lido red carpet under the flashing lights of the thousands of photographers that awaited them. Most eagerly awaited, Daniel Craig made a stellar appearance in a white suit. Leaving behind his iconic role as 007, the British actor comes back to the big screen with a character that is as complex as it is intense. Alongside the world’s most famous ex-secret agent stood Luca Guadagnino, Drew Starkey, best known for his role as “Rafe” in the Netflix series ‘Outer Banks,’ Lesley Manville, Omar Apollo, and Jason Schwartzman. The latter is also a favourite actor of Wes Anderson, another director who, like Guadagnino, loves to blend cinema, fashion, design, and shots as beautiful as photographs.
Besides the cast members, we caught a glimpse of many other celebrities such as the iconic Patty Pravo, the festival’s patroness Sveva Alviti, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton, and Michaël Borremans, who is arguably the greatest living figurative painter.
Photos: Elisa Trento
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
