We don’t know much about Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film Queer. We know it stars Daniel Craig as an American in Mexico City in the 1940s, where he falls for a young man played by Drew Starkey — at which point things are liable to get even hornier than Guadagnino’s last film, Challengers. Much more will be revealed when Queer premiers at the Venice Film Festival next week, but even then, around an hour of the movie will be left on the cutting room floor, a new interview reveals.

Alberto Barera, director of the Venice Film Festival, said that the original cut of Queer — which had an epic runtime of three hours and 20 minutes — is not the version audiences will see at the festival.

Barera said Queer is Guadagnino’s “best film” in an interview with Italian magazine Lucy. “Daniel Craig has never been so good, impressive, the performance of a lifetime,” he said, noting that he got to see two early cuts of the film, which were longer than the two-and-a-half hour version the festival is showing. (Barera’s interview was originally published in Italian, here translated to English.)

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Getting less of Guadagnino’s work is a bummer in itself, but it’s especially devastating knowing what section of the film was cut: a look into the vibrant gay nightlife of mid-century Mexico City.

“I’m a little sorry, because I know what he cut: all of Craig’s wanderings in the gay clubs of Mexico City in the early 1950s, with this incredible fauna of homosexuals looking for adventures,” Barera said. “I hope that sooner or later Guadagnino makes the director’s cut because there are some beautiful things.”

Barera isn’t the only one desperate for a director’s cut. When the news hit social media, fans of Craig, Starkey, and Guadagnino alike were all quick to call for the three-hour version to come out eventually — if not to theaters, then at least to streaming so dedicated fans can get the full Queer experience. Come on, Luca, give us our full serving of gay Daniel Craig!

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