Shot in South West London in 1971, Duffer is an intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns beautiful and disturbing.
It tells the story of a teenage boy (Duffer) who is caught between the womanly charms and tender love and care of a kindly prostitute called Your Gracie and the increasingly brutal sadistic attentions of an older man named Louis-Jack.
Duffer finds himself in a most extraordinary position when it appears that he has become pregnant.
Both whimsical and disturbing, with a quirky sense of the grotesque, Duffer is a film that defies easy comparison – perhaps Eraserhead (1977) comes close.
The director and writer were two ex-pat Canadians in London, and the score is by Galt MacDermot, the Grammy award-winning composer of Hair. The trio would reunite to make their London-set musical, The Moon Over the Alley.
Duffer
Kit Gleave
Your Gracie
Erna May
Louis-Jack
William Dumaresq
Director
Joseph Despins
