“Daniel Craig Searches for Human Connection,” accompanied by a swooning Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross. score

If you’re looking for some atmospheric introspection to start your Monday – and who isn’t? – Look no further than the new trailer for the William S. Burroughs adaptation “Queer,” directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig as an expatriate in postwar Mexico City exploring his homosexuality. Check out the new trailer for “Queer” below.

Just watching this thing is a haunting reverie, reminiscent of some of Trent Reznor and Atticus’ lush film scores.

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“Queer” was new cinematic territory for Craig as an actor. Watch as he awkwardly and tongue-in-cheek makes a polite bow to introduce himself to Drew Starkey’s much younger man at a bar. He was obviously fascinated by Starkey’s character from the start. And what follows is a steamy love affair with some of the more graphic gay sex scenes you’ll see this side of Pedro Almodóvar.

It’s the kind of daring performance that Craig himself admitted to the New York Times when he first portrayed James Bond that he hadn’t attempted.

“I wouldn’t have done it,” Craig said, if “Queer” had been offered to him 10 years ago. “I was so caught up in Bond and what that was that I would have been afraid to do something like that.”

“Especially at the beginning of Bond, I thought, ‘That’s enough.’ Stay on my trail.’”

IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio gave “Queer” an “A” grade at the Venice Film Festival this fall. “Luca Guadagnino’s profound and kaleidoscopic new film begins in a post-World War II Mexico City of the mind and ends in the Ecuadorian rainforest on an ayahuasca journey that is part Apichatpong Weerasethakul, part ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ but entirely the “‘Call’ is ‘Me By Your Name’ is the director’s own strange sui generis creation,” Lattanzio wrote. “William Lee (Daniel Craig) is a sweaty, raw, self-lacerating and dissolute expatriate wandering from bar to bar in the Mexican capital in the 1940s, recreated here at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome with rigorous detail and scope and strangeness the warehouse mind-set in Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York.”

Regarding these sex scenes, Craig said at the Venice Film Festival press conference: “As far as I know, there’s nothing intimate about doing a sex scene on a film set.” You’re in a room full of people watching you. We just wanted to make it as touching, real and natural as possible. Drew was a wonderful, beautiful, fantastic actor to work with and we laughed a lot. We tried to make it funny.

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