“While Queer depicts a very specific time and place, its themes - longing, loneliness, and the limits of what we can seek in another person; what they can do for us and what we must do for ourselves - remains universal.
Guadagnino created this movie because he sees what many may not in Burroughs’ work: a cantankerous, gun-toting, heroin-shooting, three-piece-suit wearing elderly hellion as the original punk.”