14/25
Daniel Craig finally convinced Luca Guadagnino to play Drew Starkey
Narrative
Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico among American expat college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers a quick 12 movies to watch in 2024. At the New York Film Festival, films including Anora and the dangerous, strangely erotic Misericordia .. after watching the audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him "That’s the guy" after seeing Starkey’s..
I’ve never seen ‘Southern Naked’
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Burroughs provided the source material for both films
Mexico, William Lee, American writer on the wrong side of…forties? Fifty? He spends his days getting drunk, shooting and having casual sex with other men. One day, a muscular, intelligent young man, Eugene, walks into a bar and Lee is smitten.
But what does Eugene himself want?
Also, there’s a telepathic drug to think about… I’m not sure what director Luca Guadagnino is going for stylistically with this film. The sets are decorated almost entirely in block colors — dull reds and olive greens, for example — and have that vaguely unrealistic, clean Technicolor look that made me think it was an homage to the era in which the film is set. set.
It was good to see it once, but I won’t be watching it again
But if that’s the case, why is Daniel Craig (is it my imagination or is he starting to sound like Sid James?) stuck in the lead role constantly having to spout nonsense in what is clearly not his accent. Drew Starkey manages to deliver a more subtle performance as the manipulative Eugene and certainly looks ready. Lesley Manville is unrecognizable as a doctor living in the South American jungle – great job with the makeup team! It’s the kind of movie that feels more about the artistic style than the narrative material to me.