This mesmerising film stars Daniel Craig and explores sex as a tender, emotive antidote to gay shame and the vital, life-affirming power of sensuality.
WORDS PATRICK SPROULL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MUBI UK To Luca Guadaganino, the Italian filmmaker and Hollywood’s guiding light on sensual cinema, nothing is ever as it seems.
In a cinema landscape starved of eroticism, Guadaganino’s nuanced, granular approach to sex has been a balm. The world of Guadagnino contains invigorating contradictions: cannibalism is romantic, tennis is more than a sport, and, of course, a peach is not just a peach.
This playful blurring of what constitutes sex throughout his career makes the (literally) naked intimacy of his newest film, Queer, all the more powerful.