Thursday, January 12, 2012
CULTURE CLASH
Today's favorite gay film was the Montreal made
This is a fun movie. A fiercely Italian family with a gay son who tries living in the closet and then comes out with dire results. The shit hits the fan with mom and dad. A sympathetic sister, most of the time, and a closety lover complicate things. Especially when the two mothers get together.
The one to watch in this film is our hero's Mom who goes through a finely tuned change of heart over a very long period of time.
The Dad is Paul Sorvino. Another kind of good.
No wars are won. Nothing bad happens. No one dies. Well not in the present day. And I figured out the Mambo part of the title just now. Oh!
It has a lot of laughs and a few appropriate tears.
It is farce after all.
The guys are pretty good looking and there is a sympathetic takedown of gay help hotlines.
I liked it a lot and I would be willing to see it again just to watch Mom.
A 4 out of Netflix5.
