47/37
The Man” After watching Starkey
Chronology
Lee describes his life in Mexico City among American college students and bar owners who survive on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is inspired to pursue a young man named Allerton, based on Adelbert Lewis Marker. Close-up: Why Do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024) Never Had a ‘Naked Lunch’; (1991) but 'Queer' I kept thinking about it during the show: William S.
Burroughs probably provided the source material for both films
1950s' Mexico, William Lee, an American writer on the wrong side of… forties? fifties? He spends his days getting drunk, shooting guns and having casual sex with other men.
But what does Eugene want?
One day Eugene, a young, talented muscleman, walks into the bar and Lee is smitten. And there’s a telepathic drug you can imagine… Stylistically, I’m not sure what director Luca Guadagnino is trying to achieve with this film. The sets are decorated almost exclusively in color blocks – dark red and olive green, for example – and have that vaguely unrealistic, clean, techno look that I thought was intended to pay homage to the films of the era in which the film is set.
in an accent that is clearly not his own
But if so, why is the soundtrack decidedly un-50s rock and techno? Daniel Craig (is it my imagination or is he starting to sound like Sid James?) in the lead role has to constantly spout nonsense. Drew Starkey does a good job of playing the manipulative Eugene, and he certainly has a preppy look. Leslie Manville is unrecognizable as a doctor living in the South American jungle – kudos to the makeup team!
It’s okay to watch it once, but I won’t watch it again
This is the kind of movie that makes me think more about the art style than the narrative substance.
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