Oh, Queer but Official ...?
And now it's here.
Remember when I told you about Queer, the Burroughs book adapted by Luca Guadagnino? Well, the full trailer is here. Damn. That cinematography! Will most probably see it in theaters. I think movies like this deserve the big screen. And then I’ll stream it. Just like I did with Call Me By Your Name. Also, @OmarApollo is in it. Sans prosthetics…
XOXO
P.S. I re-read that book and it feels... dated and almost quaint? But I still think Burroughs craved men with a surprising intensity, while at the same time despising himself for it.
I'm looking forward to this movie too. The trailer is great! I agree that books from the era of unquestioned and unexamined internalized homophobia are "dated and almost quaint" to those of us living in the era of Pride. It's like "The Well of Loneliness" for us lesbians. We recognize the same-sex longings but the "sick and sorry" pathology of the characters is off-putting to today's "not sick and not sorry" ethos. But we must understand our history in order not to return to it.
ReplyDeleteHonestly? No interest. Craig did it hoping to get an Oscar Nomination.
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