Mommy Is Coming
Cheryl Dunye
»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.
Cheryl Dunye
Born in 1966, Cheryl Dunye is a Liberian-American filmmaker, video artist and performer who first emerged as part of the Queer New Wave in the early 1990s. Often set in an intimate context, her work analyses connections between race, gender and class in the lives of Black lesbians. Humour, the blurring of fiction and reality, the representation of the queer community and the director’s own presence in front the camera are fundamental elements of her cinema.
Films by Cheryl Dunye
Mommy Is Coming 2012 | The Owls 2010 | My Baby’s Daddy 2004 | Stranger Inside 2001 | The Watermelon Woman 1996 | Vanilla Sex 1992 | She don’t fade 1991 | Janine 1990
