Luka Guadagnino has created a career to achieve such a smoldering, desire that often destroys the hands of beautiful people. So when they announced WeirdA conversion of William S Buroz’s long-time unaffected semi-autocratic novel, it was almost very correct: a film about the craving and isolation of a film, a film, was lensed by a director who understands that the unaffected will understand anything Is more powerful than. The film is present in a marginal place between the prose of Baroz, between the possession and the loss and disappointment.

Weird Well, has been divisive. It came back from a mist of expectation and doubt in Venice, with critics either pounced on its fever mood or turned his eyes into his enjoyment. For a filmmaker, who lukes in style, Guadagonino Steps Weird Humid, wuzi in disorder. The film is unseen in the forefront of the city of Mexico, where Daniel Craig Pines leads after a small and attractive isolated, which transforms Drew Stark into a ghost with domed fixation.

Drew Stark and Daniel Craig still from Luka Guadagino’s ‘Queue’. Photo Credit: Mubi

There is a burning enthusiasm how the writing of Guadagino translates the will in cinema-the sun is soaked with the sun. Call me by your nameFever of fee SusperiaOr even sweaty technical pangs Challengers– Who sees Weird As a discovery of connection instead of a study in passion.

“I respectfully and honestly do not believe that this is a film about destructive passion for anyone,” says Guadagino. “Neither this is an uncontrolled love story. I think this is a love story of deep love. There is not a deep love story, but deep love. ,

The distinction is important to him. For Italian autism, the film is not a picture of a man running to ruin a man, but one of the two people caught in the gravitational bridge. They cannot fully understand. Played with a beating vulnerability by Craig, Lee is a migrant in Mexico City in the 1950s, numbness with alcohol, sex and heroin, until he is until he is from Eugene Alerton Meet, Youth GI played by Stark. Their relationship is frightening, sometimes tender, often distant – affection of alerton is the best in unqualified, in the worst. They have a connection that is determined by the Missulling, not the lack of emotion.

“If you pay attention, the first time we look at the alert, he is looking at Lee,” Gwadagino explains. “Lee falls in love with Alerton as alerton is interested in it. It is not about Lee to object to this character and want him so badly that he is going to go to the places that will affect him. “He stops, then says,” I don’t like the stocker. “

Drew Stark and Daniel Craig still from Luka Guadagino’s ‘Queue’. Photo Credit: Mubi

For Stark, the challenge of playing the alerton was to embrace a character, which is inadvertently, by design.

“Alerton was a difficult person to learn,” he believes. “The one who really tested it, but also incredibly, incredibly fun. There is something within him – the mechanism that loves someone, he also separates it at the same time. It makes interesting and complicated.

At the core of the contradiction WeirdAlerton is not the kind of lover that Lee may have, nor is he ready to be. That is, as the film suggests in its most hallucinations, not in the queue, but dissatisfied – there is one whose presence is always beyond access. Guadagnino recalled an early table, where he told The Cast that it was not a film about love without love, but about unsafe love.

“It is about two people who are working in different places and time on various aircraft,” Starkey says. “Almost like ships at night. Somewhere in time and place, these souls are to connect. But they have a difficult time, for whatever reason, in this place, to communicate it. ,

Sometimes the movement says that more than the language, and for Stark, Weird The movement had more emotion as an exercise. The months of rehearsal with choreographers Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leone shaped long -term moments of intimacy. “Just to find out the place with each other is too early to find out, and Daniel and I embarrass myself in front of each other” – he keeps an eye in Guadagino, who deliberately interfere: “I think I think That you embarrassed yourself for five minutes, and then you got a habit of it. This process was a way, some primary, almost childhood -like return. And from that vulnerability, a different kind of flow emerged. So it was invaluable to start with the world’s largest icebreaker, and to continue that process. ,

Drew Stark and Daniel Craig still from Luka Guadagino’s ‘Queue’. Photo Credit: Mubi

If Weird If the struggle for connection is about, it is also about the methods that the body cheats on the mind. Guadagnino, who has previously described himself as someone who has “smoked too much as cigarettes,” prepared himself for the use of drugs for the film’s facilitarian depiction – but a style endorsement Instead of reaching the psyche of your characters. Vice of Baroz.

“The problem was not represented by Ayahuska’s experience in a literal sense,” he explains, “but Lee and Alerton were going to experience in that moment.”

The climax of a deep film in the Ecuadorian jungle is an immersive lineage in the subconscious. Alerton and Lee Instaste Yag, Holucinogenic Wine Buroz pursued unclearly in real life, and the resulting sequence is haunting and hypnotized: the body is melted, the hearts are vomiting, and themselves are transcendent on time . This is a moment of radical intimacy, but also one of the irreparable distances.

When discussing the trippy sequence, Guadagnino describes a fusion – a type of corporal osmosis between its characters. “For us, they were going to experience the possibility of an avatar to the depth of the degree in which they fuse into each other,” Guadagino explains.

He and long -term associate, cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Francis Uls and Michael Borreans (later makes a cameo in the film also make It separates itself.

Similarly, his sonic vision with Trent Rasnor and Atikus Ross on his third cooperation ChallengersDemanded a difference between romanticism and avant-garde restlessness. Guadagnino notes, “Guadagino equally used all 12 notes, which is a parallel,” with a parallel drawing, “we were thinking and playing about Sconburg before searching. WeirdLinguistic development within burroughs’ oeuvre – a classicism trembles on the precipitating radical change.

If there is a great subject of repression WeirdIt is a subject that fascinates Guadagnino from a safe, almost surprised distance. “I think one of the tragedies of all, and especially men being repressed and compressed,” he said. “And so it’s attractive to me, not being repressed at all – and I hope to not compress even – to avoid our own freedom, we do the behavior we do to compress ourselves , To see him. “

When the Oscar enrollment rolled in the last week, Weird – With other 2024 attempts by Guadagnino, Challengers – The Academy Award was clearly absent from the nomination. Snab triggled the general post-nomination hysteria on social media: was there a more case of the bizarre of the academy around the queuing stories, or just prolonged disintegration for the brand of the juicy brand of Guadagonino?

For a year in which Korli Farget’s choice was seen Substance Push the boundaries of looking like a “Oscar film”, the snubbing of both Guadagino functions last year feels especially egoistic. Guadagnino, for its share, seems to be characterlessly surprised.

Nevertheless, there is an undisputed irony in industry treatment WeirdFor alleged progress with which the industry is making champions for our next best picture, Emilia PerezHollywood hesitates when it speaks of films that queue up at the center without softening their edges. Weird Is immorally erotic, opaque for rescue and completely reluctant to fulfill the sensations of those who will like their cinema and like Natred. Perhaps that’s why it will bear it.

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