Queer. 2024. Directed by Luca Guadagnino

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Held on Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 2:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Tickets are available to members at the Explore category and above beginning two weeks before each screening date. Additional tickets will be released, to members as well as the general public, one week before each screening date. Please note that space is extremely limited and tickets will be in high demand. Tickets can be reserved at moma.org/contenders beginning at 10:30am ET.

Queer. 2024. Italy/USA. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Courtesy A24

Queer. 2024. Italy/USA. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the novel by William S. Boroughs. With Daniel Craig, Lesley Manville, Drew Starkey. DCP courtesy A24. 135 min.

Set in the expat-bar scene of 1950s Mexico City, and inhabited by a menagerie of druggies, hustlers, and lost people, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer—a lush, evocative adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s novel—features a career-best performance from Daniel Craig. Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kurtizkes (who last collaborated on Challengers) invite us to entertain the possibility of love in a hopeless place. With a star-making turn by Drew Starkey as the object of Craig’s obsession, the film is libidinous and intoxicating. Guadagnino has described Queer, which was shot entirely on built sets at the legendary Cinecittà studios in Rome, as his homage to the epic films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

This film accompanies The Contenders 2024.

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