George Clooney could learn a thing or two from Daniel Craig about ageing on screen
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As luck would have it, Queer premiered at this week’s Venice film festival just 48 hours after Jon Watts’s flyweight buddy comedy Wolfs, which casts Brad Pitt and George Clooney as two New York fixers who find themselves called to the same clean-up job. “You’re basically the same guy,” quips the New York kid who becomes their sidekick – and never mind the fact that each man regards the other as a cheap copycat. Costner turned 69 last birthday but you’d never know it from the film, given that his hero can nonchalantly beat up cowboys in their prime and bed women young enough to be his daughter. open image in gallery Cry macho: Daniel Craig weeps into Drew Starkey’s arms in Luca Guadagnino’s new film ‘Queer’ Walk 10 minutes from the Mussolini-era casino in which the festival takes place and one arrives at the shuttered Grand Hotel des Bains, the location for Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice.
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