Mommy Is Coming

Mommy Is Coming

Cheryl Dunye

DE
2012
Spielfilm
65’
desired! – film lust & queer

»Legendary US underground director Cheryl Dunye has a weakness for sex, fun, gender-bending and breaking taboos. Her lusty and humorously staged story about three women who want it all is at the same time a cheerful porn quote and a self-confidently queer porn interpretation.«
– Berlin International Film Festival 2012

Dylan and Claudia are a hot pair of lovers. The Berlin woman and her American girlfriend have sex whenever, however and wherever they want. But Dylan wants more, without falling in love straight away. Claudia on the other hand longs for love and romance. So the two of them gather experiences: Dylan comes up against her erotic limits in a new sex club, with the help of a few friendly assistants. Claudia becomes Claude and gets to know mature and attractive Helen in the hotel where she works. She in turn is stuck in a midlife-sexual crisis with her husband Hans, and has come to Berlin to visit her daughter. With Helen, Claudia reexplores love. Helen almost forgets about her daughter. When Dylan stands Claudia up, everything becomes mighty complicated …
With Mommy Is Coming, director Cheryl Dunye has made an authentic screwball comedy set in the lesbian underground scene in the Berlin of the 21st century. Powerfully staged in the wild and exciting night life and brilliantly cast with authentic actors.

Director

Cheryl Dunye

Script

Sarah Schulmann, Cheryl Dunye

Cinematography

Sanne Kurz

Editing

Oscar David, A.B., Jörn Hartmann

Sound

Juli Saragosa

Music

Key Party, Rob Fatal, Julia Robertson

Cast

Papí Coxxx, Lil Harlow, Maggie Tapert, Wieland Speck

Production

Jürgen Brüning, Cheryl Dyne, Claus Matthes

Contact

GM Films, Michael Höfner

Cheryl Dunye

Cheryl Dunye was born in Liberia in 1966 and grew up in Philadelphia, USA. Her feature film début The Watermelon Woman won the 1996 Teddy Award at the Berlinale and was shown at film festivals worldwide. Dunye often mixes fiction and documentary in her films, enabling her to explore the relationship between film and cultural memory.


Films by Cheryl Dunye
Mommy Is Coming 2012 | My Baby’s Daddy 2004 | Stranger Inside 2001 | The Watermelon Woman 1996