Luca Guadagnino's Queer starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey will premiere on Mubi on January 31. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 3 last year and had a theatrical release on November 27 in the United States.
Based on William S Burroughs' semi-autobiographical novel Queer, the film stars Craig as the author's alter ego. The film revolves around Craig's character Lee, who resides in a community of American college-goers with part-time employment and bar owners who depend on GI Bill benefits. The themes of the book cover drug abuse and sex, with Lee growing an infatuation for Allerton (Starkey), a younger and discharged US Navy serviceman. A drug consumer, Allerton stays indifferent to the sexual advances from Lee but eventually relents to them.
The cast of Queer also includes Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Borremans, David Lowery, and Andra Ursuta. The film marks the acting debut of singer-songwriter Omar Apollo as well. The film is an official selection at the Venice Film Festival this year.
Guadagnino’s Challengers screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes adapted Burroughs' Queer for the silver screen in association with the filmmaker.