They say something like, I'm not queer, I'm disembodied.

And I think that line which is totally borrows,

it's the secret of the movie and the open secret of the movie.

It's about their, both of them, incapability of owning their desire.

That's what I've wanted the movie to be about.

Okay. wanted the movie to be about. Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, an expat American becomes infatuated with a younger man, and director Luca Guadagnino's historical romance, queer.

Based on the novella by William S. Burroughs, the film follows William Lee, who recounts his life in 1950s Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners.

After he becomes infatuated with a younger man, they both set out to find a hallucinogenic drug in the Amazon that will bring them closer together.

In addition to queer, Guadonino's other directorial credits include the feature films, Bones and All, Susperia, Call Me By Your Name, A Bigger Splash, I Am Love, and The Protagonists, the documentaries'svatore Shoemaker of Dreams, and Bertolucci on Bertolucci, and episodes of the miniseries We Are Who We Are.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Guadagnino spoke with director Daniel Shinerd about filming queer.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Yeah, another round of applause.

What a wild, beautiful movie. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. I don't know much about the book. I'm curious. I think I heard you read it when you were younger. I'm just curious to hear what it meant to you then and kind of like what then inspired you

to dig into it again.

I've been a precocious reader and I was a lonely person and so books were a place were to hook and there was this place called

cellario it's a very very fine still existing bookshop in palermo where i grew up in

sicily and and i found this strange book with very slim with a cover, was white, but there was a painting

that eventually I realized was from George Basilitz. The title of the book was Diverso, different.

And there was this name, Barrows, which was evocative already, per se. So I bought it

without knowing anything about it, and then I plunge into it.

And the book is,

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