VENICE — In his new film "Queer," Daniel Craig sheds his suave 007 persona for the loneliness and anguish of a drug-addicted gay man, in a love story based on the William Burroughs novel.

Containing graphic sex scenes and emotional highs and lows, the love story between two men packs an "emotional thump," Craig said ahead of the movie's world premiere Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival.

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