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.
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