Queer

This is one of most boring and pretentious I have seen for years. Except for the sound track that tries to put some life in this otherwise contrived and obsolete story of an old gay men going through his depressing quest for a meaning to his life. Extremely slow paced, pseudo intellectual dialogs, caricatural depiction of gays in the 50's, the film appears like wanting to show how lost gay men were in these years.

Daniel Craig plays the anti héros. Drug addict, sexually impotent, he floats in a unreal world, desperate to find an anchor. He is sad and pathetic.

The film can be seen as the trash version of the famous Luchino Visconti's masterpiece Death in Venice. It could have been called Death in Mexico .

After the highly regarded Call me by your name, the director seems to err to produce a new work of value.