New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Luca Guadagnino's Queer is a wisp of smoke curling in the humid air, a film that aches with forbidden longing. Streaming on MUBI, the film is a languid dream, saturated with the yearning of a man who dares to desire-yet barely allows himself to reach. This is Daniel Craig, his face weathered yet vulnerably luminous, his performance the hush of a confession.

As Lee, Craig is hesitant but hopeful, out of place in his own skin, his body moving through the world as though apologising for its own needs. His gaze is heartbreakingly adolescent-furtive, searching, afraid of being caught yet desperate to be seen. This is not Bond, the steely, assured figure of Craig's past; this is something braver: a man allowing himself to ...