Daniel Craig received a standing ovation at the Venice film festival for his latest film queer the Applause lasted for 9 minutes following the premiere of the film directed by the acclaimed Luca guadagnino this movie is an adaptation of William S burough novel of the same name Stars Craig as William Lee an expat in Mexico City who survives on part-time jobs and Army Benefits Craig who portrays a man who becomes infatuated with a younger man played by Drew starky he decides to pursue him leading to a tense and passionate story line in a rave review for Indie wire Ryan lonio described two of the film's sex scenes as feverishly charged under the most explicit gay sex scenes I can remember in any mainstream film at Venice Craig opened up about filming the intimate scenes stating there's nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set we just wanted to make it as touching real and natural as possible