A Film by Monika Treut
My Father Is Coming is another amusing exploration of urban sexuality from
Monika Treut. Vicky, a frustrated, out of work German actress in New York City,
finds out she is about to receive a visit from her Bavarian father who mistakenly
believes that she is happy, successful and married. Vicky's attempts to fool
her father include her persuading her gay male roommate to pose as her husband.
Vicky's world quickly collapses when her father inadvertently lands a role
in a prime-time television commercial, and begins to have his own highly entertaining
sexual adventures, including a session with New Age sex goddess Annie Sprinkle.
In the wake of her father's fame, fortune, and new-found pleasures, Vicky also
begins to open up to new experiences, slipping into a lesbian affair and a compelling
relationship with a handsome female-to-male transsexual.
"A cheerful cornucopia of kinkiness where genders and sexual preferences
aren't simply bent - they're twisted into corkscrews." - New York Times
"An orgasmic opus... " - Village Voice
"Monika Treut is a bracingly confident director... her tone is rather
like an early Woody Allen, making a strafer's pass over Fassbinder without camping
too much in John Waters manner." - San Diego Union
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