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Daniel Craig gives a performance for the ages – specifically the middle-ages – in his new film Queer, adapted by Luca Guadagnino from the William S Burroughs novel and set in a pungent post-war Mexico City. The 56-year-old former Bond plays William Lee, a man of faded charisma and slipped-gear authority. Lee is verbose and needy, drunk and desperate. He’s rattling from cafe to bar, pursuing boys half his age. Queer is a film of overflowing ashtrays, rumpled suits and fragile spectacles thrown aside on the bed. But mostly it’s focused on Craig, an alpha male playing beta, a movie star who’s growing old. It frames the actor’s weatherbeaten face as though it’s a sunset to gawk at.
