Queer

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Queer

Queer

original title:

Queer

directed by:

screenplay:

Justin Kuritzkes, from the novel by William S. Burroughs

cinematography:

set design:

costume design:

country:

Italy/USA

year:

2024

film run:

151'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (23/07/2024)

festivals & awards:

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City in his early 50s, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, a young student new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
“How can a man who sees and feels be other than sad?” William Burroughs asks in the last entry of his personal diary before his death. In adapting his second novel, published almost forty years after he wrote it, we have tried to respond to this humble appeal of the great iconoclast of the beat generation. Lee loves Allerton, Allerton loves Lee: they will be able to meet despite all the missteps and fears that act on both of them in their picaresque journey in South America projected by Burroughs’ mind?