Queer (2024)

The first big prestigious adaptation of a William S. Burroughs work since Naked Lunch (1991), Luca Guadagnino's Queer (2024) explores the seamier side of the gay subculture amongst American expats in 1950s Mexico City. William Lee (Daniel Craig) is an aging expat who spends his nights cruising for younger men, eventually becoming fixated on a young Army deserter named Eugene (Drew Starkey). The two begin a drug-fueled love affair that soon finds them sailing down the river in the jungles of Ecuador looking for a mysterious doctor to give them Ayahuasca, you know, one of those kinds of movies. Don't sleep on this one, though, because there is a skinsational dream sequence just prior to the one hour mark when a fully nude Ronia Ava appears to Craig in a drug-induced dream sequence!