"One of the first real signs that Queer is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during the early '50s and the soundtrack blasts a song by Nirvana."
"There is a single-take scene in which Lee assembles the equipment necessary to inject himself with heroin, and the camera watches as he gets high, slowing his body down to become a sort of pathetic statue at the kitchen table."
"The weight of it all comes down to Craig, and he's a wonder in a fedora, dirt stains on his linen pants. Queer is a reminder of how good an actor he is and how brave he can be - naked, needy and noxious."
"Symbols - a wriggling bug, snakes and mirrors - combine with trippy techniques meant to show Lee's interior life, like his arm superimposed onto a scene tenderly touching his paramour when, in reality, it is hanging still."
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