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Duffer

A bizarre study of obsession focusing on a teenage boy who is torn between the charms of a fleshly female prostitute and the sadism of an older man.

Drama 1971 75 mins

Director: Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq

Rent for £3.50

Overview

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 of a kindly prostitute called Your Gracie and the sadistic attentions of an older man named Louis-Jack. And then Duffer gets pregnant ... Both whimsical and disturbing, with a quirky sense of the grotesque, Duffer is a film that defies easy comparison (perhaps Eraserhead 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.

This title is also available on DVD / Blu-ray in the BFI’s Flipside collection.

Director

Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq

Featuring

William Dumaresq , Kit Gleave and Erna May

Genres

Drama

Certificate

Contains strong language and one scene of sexual violence

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Accessibility

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