Luca Guadagnino’s Queer starring Daniel Craig is an Italian-American co-production, produced by The Apartment, Frenesy, Fremantle North America. Set in Mexico City in the 1940s, it is the semi-autobiographical story of Lee, who escapes from a drug bust in New Orleans. He becomes infatuated with Allerton, a sailor on leave and drug addict, who, although indifferent to his advances, eventually gives in, but only enough to make Lee's sexual desires even more obsessive. Together, they journey to South America in search of a drug known as "Yage", which Lee believes will make him a psychic. The film was shot at Cinecittà (Rome) and in various locations in Sicily.
The exteriors of Latin America in the 1940s were recreated on the island. The botanical gardens and the Kalsa neighborhood of Palermo stood in for Mexico: piazza Magione became a Mexico City market, with wooden carts and fruit and vegetable stalls, while the botanical garden was used as a Mexican forest. Buonfornello, hamlet of Termini Imerese (province of Palermo), and Selinunte, at the mouth of the Belice River (with stilt houses, boats and wrecks) in the province of Trapani, were used to create Panama.
Luca Guadagnino’s Queer starring Daniel Craig is an Italian-American co-production, produced by The Apartment, Frenesy, Fremantle North America. Set in Mexico City in the 1940s, it is the semi-autobiographical story of Lee, who escapes from a drug bust in New Orleans. He becomes infatuated with Allerton, a sailor on leave and drug addict, who, although indifferent to his advances, eventually gives in, but only enough to make Lee's sexual desires even more obsessive. Together, they journey to South America in search of a drug known as "Yage", which Lee believes will make him a psychic. The film was shot at Cinecittà (Rome) and in various locations in Sicily.
The exteriors of Latin America in the 1940s were recreated on the island. The botanical gardens and the Kalsa neighborhood of Palermo stood in for Mexico: piazza Magione became a Mexico City market, with wooden carts and fruit and vegetable stalls, while the botanical garden was used as a Mexican forest. Buonfornello, hamlet of Termini Imerese (province of Palermo), and Selinunte, at the mouth of the Belice River (with stilt houses, boats and wrecks) in the province of Trapani, were used to create Panama.
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Daniel Craig
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Daniel Craig
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Daniel Craig, Drew Starke
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Daniel Craig, Drew Starke
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Daniel Craig, Luca Guadagnino
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Daniel Craig, Lesley Manville
1950. William Lee, an American about to turn fifty, has moved to Mexico City. He spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few encounters with some of the few other American expats. Meeting Eugene Allerton, a young student who has just arrived in the city, shows him that, for the first time, there is the chance establishing an intimate connection with someone.
