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IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers quick takes on 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous and curiously erotic Mercy
Plot
Lee, who chronicles his life in Mexico City among expatriate American college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits, is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker. Daniel Craig was ultimately the one who convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him “That’s the guy” after watching Starkey.
Referenced in Close-Up: Why Do We Need the Venice Film Festival?
(2024). This film is undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made.
Director Luca Guadagnino is one of the best queer directors of the 21st century
It is a story told at a steady pace, told primarily not with words but with cinematic means of expression. The perfect combination of spectacular gay love and classical music brings to life creations of human imagination in a realistic and poetic way.
I would recommend this movie to anyone
I hope he wins many Oscars for this masterpiece in 2025. I can assure you that after watching it once, you will immediately want to watch it again because of how great it is.