Hey, cinema fans! We’ve got some bad news, and some good news. First, the 2024 autumn season of Dazed x MUBI Cinema Club is drawing to a close, following special screenings of films like The Substance, Hoard, and Bird. Now for the good news. To round out this latest season, there’s one more film in store, and it’s a biggie: Queer from Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, Challengers), with the beloved filmmaker himself in attendance.

Starring Daniel Craig, Queer is based on William Burroughs’ 1985 novella of the same name, which marked a formative moment in Luca’s teenage years. The plot? It’s 1950, and William Lee (Craig) is a US expat spending his lonesome days in Mexico City, where he only knows a few other members of the city’s small American community. That’s until an opportunity for real intimacy arises, in the form of an encounter with ex-soldier Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), another expat who’s new to Mexico City.

Also starring the likes of Jason Schwartzman and Omar Apollo, with costumes by Jonathan Anderson, Guadagnino says that the adaptation of Queer attempts a reply to a question asked in the last entry of Burroughs’ personal diary prior to his death: “How can a man who sees and feels be other than sad?”

Ahead of its December 13 release date in the UK, Dazed x MUBI Cinema Club will host an extra special preview of Queer at Curzon Soho on December 9. Guadagnino will be there alongside screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes for a Q&A following the film.

Get your tickets for the screening – which includes a welcome reception before the film with drinks, snacks and free popcorn – here, with a discounted rate available for Dazed Club members. Find out more about that here.

In the meantime, you can watch the trailer for Queer below.