Mother's Meat Freuds Flesh (1984)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Demetri Estdelacropolis

Writer:

Demetri Estdelacropolis (writer)

Release Date:

23 February 1984 (West Germany)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The story of a boy and his mother.

Plot:

Mother's milk makes strong children, but a child who is a reluctant weaner may have developed a mother-addiction. "Mother's Meat & Freud's Flesh" ironically explores the resulting triangle of a mother, psychiatrist, and mother's boy.

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

George Agettees	...	Flaky Porno Director
Pierre Bastien	...	Gay Basher
Christian Dufault	...	N.Y. boy friend
Demetri Estdelacropolis	...	Dimira / Lucie (as Demetri Demetrios)
Michel Gagnon	...	Psycho / Dentist
Lawrence Joseph	...	Hollywood Movie Producer
Harry Karagopian	...	Harry
W.A. MacGregor	...	Couch Prop
Marjorie Morton	...	Woman with Pliers
Claire Nadon	...	Porno actress
E.J. Sullivan	...	Speed
Michelle Tardif	...	Gore Twin Girl
Rick Trembles	...	Gore Twin Boy
Esther Vargas	...	Mother

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

Canada Council for the Arts

Trivia:

A student film which was the lone Canadian feature invited to the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. It created a minor scandal by upsetting several Canadian government officials who were present with its nudity and violence.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in In the Belly of the Beast (2001)

Soundtrack:

Hearts are Trump

The film ages well with time

21 years ago the film was irritating,painful and even embarrassing to watch. Upon a recent re-screening of the film I have found that time has been very kind to it. In fact it is a whole different and competent film in the year 2005. In 1984 it was something stuck in the twilight between John Waters "in bad taste", and art-house gay European cinema that was in its heyday during the early to mid 1980's, throw in a bit of the Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey, Factory NYC underground "Super Star" system of casting with regards to Esther Vargas, "Mother's Meat" female lead. Now the film stands on it own with some time and distance form those other schools of gender cinema. "Mother's Meat& Freud's Flesh" number 3 fan and its director, Demetri Estdelacropolis