The actor stars in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of a book by William S. Burroughs, playing an American in 1950s Mexico City who becomes besotted with a younger man.

Guadagnino, convinced Craig was right for the role, approached the actor with the script. In Craig, Guadagnino saw someone, he says, who was “open to play.” Within days, Craig, long an admirer of Guadagnino’s films, was in.

Luca Guadagnino's Queer is a unique film, a brilliant film, and a deeply and profoundly odd film, and it won't be a movie that everyone loves.

Mounting a risqué novella by William Burroughs, filmmaker Luca Guadagnino finds an expressive way forward for the former James Bond, who finds a new register.