India, Jan. 31 -- Director Luca Guadagnino seems to have reached a phase in his career when he can turn his obsessions into feature films. Even prior to the phenomenon that was Call Me By Your Name, there was A Bigger Splash, and recently, there was the sexy sports drama Challengers. It is as if he is throwing one shot at the dark and hoping it lands somewhere.

If the outcome is something as dense and ravishing as Queer is, there's no complaining. There's simply no way a story like the one told in Queer, loosely based on the novella of the same name by writer William S. Burroughs, can be told without indulgence. Such a film would rather not exist. (Also read: Daniel Craig doesn't 'care' who plays the next James Bond or remember how many ...