Queer

Production d'une grande beauté plastique tirée d'une nouvelle de William S. Burroughs. Ensemble manquant de puissance. Composition solide de D. Craig.

Avec le Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez, favori aux Golden Globes, Queer est sans équivoque l'un des plus beaux films de 2024. La question, à mon avis, ne se pose même pas.

On oublie souvent que Daniel Craig sait faire autre chose que de tuer des méchants dans la série des James Bond. Et il le prouve dans Queer de Luca Guadagnino. 

Queer is an exercise in cinematic smugness. It's a shame because it does contain some truly fine performances and compelling imagery. But much like its central character, it can't get over itself.

Though adapted from the book (and life) of William S. Burroughs, this carnal film builds just as much on the filmmaker's ongoing interest in unmet desire, finding greater ecstasy in the wait than in the act.

The last third of "Queer" may prove to be a challenge for audiences -- much more so than the film's explicit eroticism. Yet Luca Guadagino is telling a version of the same compelling story that he told in "Call Me by Your Name': that of a queer love that, instead of delivering the salvation it promises, withers under the gaze of the real world.

In Queer, Luca Guadagnino meets William S. Burroughs on the iconoclast's own slippery terms and the result is mesmerizing.