15/19
However, the arrival of a young student prompts the man to finally establish a meaningful relationship with someone
In 1950s Mexico City, a former American in his late forties lives a lonely life in a small American community. It was Daniel Craig who ultimately convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him “This is the guy” after seeing Starkey’s..
William Lee: Sit on Your Ass!
Or What’s Left of Him After Four Years in the Navy. Features Orpheus (1950).
This is one of the most boring and pretentious I’ve seen in years
Except for the soundtrack, which tries to breathe life into this otherwise contrived and outdated story about an old gay man going through his depressing search for meaning in his life. Extremely slow pace, pseudo-intellectual dialogues, caricatured depiction of gays in the 1950s, the film seems to want to show how lost gays were in those years.
Daniel Craig plays the antihero
Drug addict, sexually impotent, he is adrift in an unreal world, desperate to find an anchor. He is sad and pathetic.
It could have been called Death in Mexico
The film can be seen as a trash version of Luchino Visconti’s famous masterpiece “Death in Venice”. After the highly regarded Call me by your name, the director seems to be making a mistake in producing a new work of value.