Omar Apollo goes full-frontal in ‘Queer’ & more early reactions to Luca Guadagnino’s explicit gay odyssey

Image Credit: ‘Queer,’ A24

The fall film festival season just got a little more… Queer, thanks to the arrival of the latest feature from Call Me By Your Name and Challengers filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.

Based on a novel of the same name from acclaimed writer William S. Burroughs, the drama finds Daniel Craig playing Lee, a lonely American drug addict living in Mexico City in the ’50s who becomes infatuated with a young student (Outer Banks‘ Drew Starkey).

We’ve been following the project pretty closely (especially after Guadagnino teased the film’s sex scenes would be “numerous and quite scandalous”), devouring every morsel of information we could find since it was announced in late 2022. And, now that Queer has finally debuted at the Venice Film

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