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He has to track down a young man named Allerton, whose prototype is Adelbert Lewis Marker
Scenario
Lee, who talks about life in Mexico City among American expatriate students and bar owners who survive on part-time jobs and benefits under the military service bill. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers a brief description of the 12 films he will screen at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Honor and the dangerous, curiously erotic Misericordia. It was Daniel Craig who finally convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching Guadagnino’s audition tapes. and say: “This is the guy”; after watching “Starkey…” It’s mentioned in “Close-up: Why do we need the Venice Film Festival?” (2024).
I’ve never seen Naked Dinner
(1991), but I often found myself thinking about it during the screening of Queer at the 2024 London Film Festival: perhaps that was to be expected, since William S. Burroughs provided the source material for both films. In the 1950s' Mexico, William Lee, an American writer in his forties? Fifty?
But what does Yevgeny himself want?
She spends whole days getting drunk, kissing and sometimes having sex with other men. One day, a muscular and smart young man, Eugene, walks into a bar, and Lee falls in love with him. Plus there’s that telepathic drug to think about… I’m not sure what stylistically director Luca Guadagnino is trying to achieve with this film.
with an accent clearly not his
The sets are designed almost exclusively in blocky colors — dull reds and olive greens, for example — and have that vaguely unrealistic, clean, multicolored look that led me to believe the intent was to pay homage to the films of the era in which a film was shot. installed. But if that’s the case, why exactly the soundtrack in the style of rock and techno of the 1950s? Daniel Craig (is it me or is he starting to look like Sid James?) is stuck in the lead role, constantly saying stupid things.
I could watch it once, but I won’t watch it again
Drew Starkey is capable of playing a more subtle role as Eugene’s manipulator, and he certainly shows a conservative side. Leslie Manville is unrecognizably like a doctor living in the jungles of South America – kudos to the make-up team! It seems to me that this film is more about the artistic style than the content of the narrative.