Queer

Set in Mexico City in the early 1950s, within an expatriate American community that is alienated and steeped in alcohol.

At the center of the film is Lee, a lonely American intellectual and alcoholic living on the margins, who develops an emotional obsession with Eugene, a young, beautiful, and enigmatic student.

Their relationship is charged and at times one-sided, driven more by desire, dependency, and fear of rejection than by fulfilled romance.

The question that accompanies the film is not whether a romance will emerge between them, but whether the feeling of love truly exists at all, or whether it is merely a projection of profound loneliness and a desperate need for connection.