Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh
Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh

Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh

2.0(1 votes)
1985
1h 33m
Comedy
Drama

Inspired by the early trash films of John Waters, the film stars Estdelacropolis as Demira, a gay porn actor struggling with both his emotionally complicated relationship with his mother Esther and his desire to break out of porn and into mainstream movies. He connects with a Freudian psychiatrist who is convinced that his homosexuality stems from an unresolved Oedipus complex which he has repressed by denying his natural attractions to women, to which the psychiatrist's proposed solution is to hypnotize Esther into believing that she is a man so that men will become the gender that sexually repulses Demira; in his career, he is ambivalent when the first "mainstream" role he is able to land is a gore film in which he will play the victim of a cannibal family for which Esther has also been cast as the mother.

Production

Canada Council for the Arts, ONF | NFB

Cast

Demetri Estdelacropolis

Demetri Estdelacropolis

Dimira / Lucie

Esther Vargas

Esther Vargas

Mother

Michel Gagnon

Michel Gagnon

Psycho / Dentist

George Agettees

George Agettees

Flaky Porno Director

Pierre Bastien

Pierre Bastien

Gay Basher

Christian Dufault

Christian Dufault

N.Y. boy friend

Lawrence Joseph

Lawrence Joseph

Hollywood Movie Producer

Harry Karagopian

Harry Karagopian

Harry

W.A. MacGregor

W.A. MacGregor

Couch Prop

Marjorie Morton

Marjorie Morton

Woman with Pliers

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