Venice is buzzing over Daniel Craig's explicit gay sex scenes in queer there are many of us who whether or not we'd like to admit watch director Luca guad Nino's gorgeously erotic Coming of Age gay love story call me by your name started to get hot and bothered when the film's big sex scene started and then when the camera cut to the window just as things started to get explicit groaned come on those exasperated shouts must have been loud and frequent because guad Nino seems to be cheeky addressing them in his new film queer which just debut to Raves and throbbing Li bidos at the Venice Film Festival queer is an adaptation of William S burough semi-autobiographical novel written in the 50s but not published until 1985 about a junky expad named Bill Lee Daniel Craig living in Mexico City chasing the high of hard drugs and sex with the hard-bodied men he encounters especially Eugene alleron drew starky a handsome serviceman from Florida Lee confides an allert in that he is a homosexual and invites him on a trip to South America where he wants to learn more about an iasa plant that supposedly gives its EMB Biber telepathic Powers that's one goal of the journey the other is to have allert an all to himself a translation of his addiction to drugs to an addiction to a man doc Craigs performance has gotten rave reviews from the critics who screened the film in Venice calling it heartbreaking dedicated and the best work of the bond star's career and while Craig's acting is getting loads of attention the hosas are being eclipsed by the surprise pleasant surprise to be clear over how explicit the film's sex scenes are queer well Luca definitely doesn't pan to a window this time the New York Times Kyle Buchanan posted on X Okay I lied he actually does pan to a window during one sex scene then Cuts back to the F like pych Indie wires Ryan l anzio wrote that the film has the most explicit gay sex scenes I can remember in any mainstream movie if queer is that at all he also teased that pop star Omar Apollo who appears in the film as one of Le hookups has a full frontal nude scene in the film The panning to the window critique and the way in which guad Nino seems to address it is discussed in several of the reviews that guad nino briefly pans out a window during both sex scenes only to cut back to the love to find them going at it even harder than before could suggest the filmmaker is trolling critics of the controversially coer sex scene and call me by your name which panned to a tree outside the bedroom of an Italian Villa as Timothy Shalom an Army Hammer started going at it lanio wrote but I think that's just guad Nino's playfully teasing style often abruptly digressive in a film's most sensual or viseral moments only to yank us back into the primality of it all the BBC's Nicholas Barber opened his review with a similar observation when lucad Nino's call me by your name came out in 2017 the director was criticized for the coinus of the two male lovers sex scenes even the film screenwriter James Ivory argued that Timothy shalam and army Hammer's naked bodies should have been on show to me he said that's a more natural way of doing things than to hide them or to do what Luca did which is to pan the camera out of the window towards some trees evidently guad Nino bore those words in mind when he was making queer which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday because when Daniel Craig goes to bed with a man their coupling is shown from enthusiastic start to explosive finish anyone who enjoyed seeing Craig striding out of the ocean in his swimming trunks in Casino Royale will be in for a treat