"Luca Guadagnino meets William S. Burroughs on the iconoclast’s own slippery terms and the result is mesmerizing…. It’s hard to think of a more ideal director than Guadagnino to explore queerness, sensuality and the shifting terrain of romantic intoxication, and he’s found the perfect traveling companion in Daniel Craig."
—David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
"How lucky are we to be around at the same time that Luca Guadagnino is doing his thing? The Italian director has delivered some of the boldest and most uncompromising works of the last decade…. Star Daniel Craig is downright sensational in what proves to be a transformative role, initially playing on our expectations of his world-famous James Bond performance before gleefully tearing those assumptions apart...." —Jeremy Mathai, Slash Film
From director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), written by Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers) and based on the novel by William S. Burroughs, and starring Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, and Jason Schwartzman.
1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.