THE NEW YORK TIMES: His vulnerable performance in “Queer” may surprise fans of the former Bond star, but it’s a return to the sexually daring films he used to make.
In love, it can be terrifying to show all your cards, to make yourself vulnerable, to let your desire be fully seen. What is offered to another person without reservation can also be taken without recompense. Still, because we want to be loved, we risk it.
Maybe we don’t think much about that aspect of love, preferring to dwell — as most movies do — on all the moony, swoony parts. But that dangerous feeling of exposure is the central preoccupation of the new drama “Queer,” and it can’t be explored without a lead actor who is similarly willing to offer himself up.
Enter Daniel Craig, 56, our erstwhile James Bond on a bold new assignment.
In “Queer,” due Nov. 27 and adapted from a William S. Burroughs novel, Craig plays Lee, an American expat in midcentury Mexico City who becomes enamored with a coolly distant younger man, Allerton (Drew Starkey). Lee is undone by a desire that is reciprocated only in fits and starts, and watching Craig pine so vulnerably packs a pop-cultural punch: Once considered the very face of masculine cool, his visage is now soaked in flop sweat. » | Kyle Buchanan | Reporting from Hollywood, Calif. | Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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Daniel Craig explora el amor y las adicciones en ‘Queer’ : Su vulnerable interpretación en ‘Queer’ puede sorprender a los seguidores de la antigua estrella Bond, pero es un regreso a las películas sexualmente atrevidas que solía hacer. »
