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[via telepathy] Eugene Allerton: I’m not queer
Narrative
In 1950s Mexico City, an American ex-pat in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.. Daniel Craig was ultimately the one who convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him "That' s the guy" after seeing Starkey’s..
I’m not queerWilliam Lee: I knowEugene Allerton: I’m disembodied
Lee… Features Orfej (1950). This is one of the most boring and pretentious I have seen for years.
Daniel Craig plays the anti héros
Except for the sound track that tries to put some life in this otherwise contrived and obsolete story of an old gay man going through his depressing quest for a meaning to his life. Extremely slow paced, pseudo intellectual dialogues, caricatured depiction of gays in the 50’s, the film appears like wanting to show how lost gay men were in these years. Drug addict, sexually impotent, he floats in an unreal world, desperate to find an anchor.
He is sad and pathetic
The film can be seen as the trash version of the famous Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece Death in Venice. It could have been called Death in Mexico. After the highly regarded Call me by your name, the director seems to err to produce a new work of value.