“Queer” by Luca Guadagnino, descent of orgasms

Queer is the Hollywood adaptation, by the Italian Luca Guadagnino, of William S. Burroughs' Queer : autobiographical manuscript from 1952 (direct sequel to his first book Junky, a story with a heroine), published by its author only in 1985. It tells the story of the meeting, in a disembodied Mexico, of his alter ego Lee (played by the ex-Bond Daniel Craig : an idea) with Eugene Allerton (transposed from a certain Lewis Marker, played by Drew Starkey), a younger boy, more or less straight, whom he desires without much in return, and their journey to South America in search of yage, another name for ayahuasca , to which the story attributes telepathic powers.

Abandoning oneself to the film while forgetting the book? It will be difficult. The queerness of Queer the novel was entirely clinical and negative, a song – in the form of a report – of insect, amoeba, self-disgust. But we know that Guadagnino only knows how to do one thing well, he glamorizes, sexualizes, it is his operation. He seeks seduction and wants the result. Burroughs' subject, lack (of drugs, sex, love, meaning) does not really concern the filmmaker, a man of plenitude, of discharge – we remember the fishing of