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Luca Guadagnino has a 3-hour cut of his new film Queer & we'd like to see it
The version of Queer that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival is nearly an hour shorter than the original.
Who cares about a Snyder Cut when a Guadagnino Cut exists???
We already thought we couldn't get any more excited for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film Queer, but now that we've heard there's a 3+ hour cut, we feel like the movie has now become more important than our own families.
Guadagnino's Queer is a historical romantic drama following an American expat named William Lee (played by Daniel Craig) who lives in Mexico City in the 1940s. There he meets and becomes infatuated with a young man named Allerton (Drew Starkey) who was discharged from the Navy and became a drug addict.
It's said to be among the best films of both Guadagnino and Craig's careers.
Queer is premiering at this year's Venice Film Festival — and during a new interview, Venice Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera revealed that the version of the movie audiences will get to see is not the one he first saw, and it's not his favorite version.
Barbera called Queer Guadagnino's "best film" and said that Craig "has never been so good, impressive, the performance of a lifetime."
"I saw two versions of the film, the one we're screening is the third, shorter one. It lasts two hours and a quarter," he said. "The first was three hours and twenty, the second two and a half."
Wait a minute! We want to see all that missing footage!
Barbera then revealed what was cut from the film.
"I'm a little sorry, because I know what he cut: all of Craig's wandering in the gay clubs of Mexico City in the early 1950s, with this incredible fauna of homosexuals looking for adventures," he revealed.
"I hope that sooner or later, Guadagnino makes the director's cut because there are some beautiful things," he added.
We can only imagine! Guadagnino already made the best movie of his career earlier this year with the stunning sports drama Challengers, and by all accounts, this film is even better.
Please, Luca, release the director's cut!
The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held between August 28 through September 7.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
