18/13

William Lee: Get on your ass!

In 1950s Mexico, an American immigrant in his forties lives a lonely life in a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student prompts the man to finally form a meaningful relationship with someone. Daniel Craig eventually convinced Luca Guadagnino to play Drew Starkey after watching the audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him “That’s the guy” when he saw Starkey… Or what’s left of him after four years in the Navy.

Naked Lunch was also written by William S

Features Orpheus (1950). Queer: This movie surprised me, I thought it was going to be about William Lee (Daniel Craig) partying, drinking, injecting heroin, and chasing younger men in 1950s Mexico. Well, it was, but it was so much more. Touches of magical realism are combined with dream sequences and hallucinations to make this film as esoteric as Naked Lunch.

Cotter (Leslie Manville)

Buttoffs, in which he is once again portrayed by the character William Lee. In Queer, Lee has two obsessions, one is Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), who has just finished his military service and is also living in Mexico, and the second is to find yagé, a plant that is said to offer telepathic abilities to those who consume it. Despite having a relationship with Lee, Allerton is indifferent to him, but agrees to go on an expedition into the Amazon jungle to find the plant. There they meet the eccentric botanist Dr.

Novel by William S

A love story, a fantasy, a search for the Holy Grail, a kind of road movie. There is heavy drinking and drug use as Lee sails before hooking up with Allerton. Some sequences have a touch of David Lynch and what seems like two homages to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 film. Burroughs. 8/10.