Guadagnino's Queer premieres at Venice Film Festival

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 3 - Queer by Luca Guadagno, the third of Italy's five films in competition at the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, is premiering on Tuesday night.
    The movie is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs's novel about an American expat in Mexico City in 1950 who develops an obsession for a young student and stars Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey.
    Two years after winning a Silver Lion with Bones and All, the Palermo-born director returns to the lagoon city with a film written by "Challengers" screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes who adapted the novel written in the 1950s and published in 1985.
    In the film, Craig interprets William Lee, a lonely US expat who loses his head for an enigmatic young man who has just arrived in the city, Eugene Allerton, with whom he is finally able to establish a connection - a story others have tried to adapt over the years, notably Steve Buscemi.
    Other films in competition debuting on Tuesday include the fable Harvest by Athina Rachel Tsangari, based on the novel by the same name written by Jim Crace which focuses on the disappearance, in just seven days, of an unnamed village in an undefined era and location.
    Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia is presenting dystopic docudrama 2073 out of competition, a unique movie on the "sense of horror for what is going on in the world, which is becoming normal globally", said the director.
    Also out of competition, Maldoror by Fabrice du Welz, premiering on Tuesday, focuses on the disappearance of two girls.
    The Giornate degli Autori (Authors' Days) - a separate section of the festival - will see the debut Tuesday of the only Italian movie in competition, Taxi Monamour by Ciro De Caro which has two protagonists - Anna (Rosa Palasciano) who battles a disease in solitude and Cristi (Ukrainian actress Yeva Sau who has already starred in the popular TV series Mare Fuori) who flees war. (ANSA).