Coming off of “Challengers,” which was released earlier this spring, Luca Guadagnino is back for his second film of 2024 with “Queer.” The filmmaker’s latest stars Daniel Craig as William Lee, a fictionalized stand-in for author William S. Burroughs, whose slender novel the movie is based on. (The author wrote the book in the early 1950s while awaiting trial in Mexico for the murder of his wife, Joan Vollmer. It wasn’t published until 1985.)
The movie premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and later played the New York Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival. A24 acquired the domestic distribution rights to the movie, with Mubi releasing the movie internationally.