In Mexico Lee lives in a spartan room furnished with little more than a typewriter, a gun and a few ashtrays. He frequents the same dive bars as his fellow American dropouts. Lee, in his late 40s, is infatuated with a much younger man, a preppy, clean-cut, coolly uninterested boy named Eugene.
Lee craves Eugene with the same aching urgency he feels for heroin; he pursues both with an unseemly neediness.
When Lee proposes a trip to South America, it’s clear that his motivation is as much about cleaving to Eugene as it is about his quest to find and sample a psychotropic jungle plant called yage, in the hope that he might develop psychic abilities
“Craig is terrific, delivering a wholly committed, vanity-free turn that weaves between swaggering self-importance and a complete lack of dignity” – Wendy Ide – The Guardian
“Craig plays an American expat in this sometimes uproarious adaptation of William Burroughs’ autobiographical novel – It is a really funny, open, generous performance” – Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian
Englische Originalfassung mit Englischem Untertitel
USA 2024; 137 min.; Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville a. o.