‘Four Mothers’ Review: Slight But Charming Irish Comedy Treats Family Heartache With Tenderness – London Film Festival
deadline.comThere is always space, it seems, for another warm-hearted story about the foibles of Irish working-class women, cosy as a fireside chat with a nice cup of tea.
As for gay men and their mams, that’s a rich seam of drama, comedy and whatever lies in between that is probably inexhaustible.
The four mothers who give Darren Thornton’s film its title all have gay sons and have come to some sort of accommodation with that uncomfortable knowledge, however badly it sits with the church where these sons deliver them dutifully every Sunday morning.
After all, they couldn’t live without their boys — literally. Who else would put up with them and still show the love? “It does get easier,” mutters one of the sons to another as they huddle in a back pew. “When?” is the anguished reply.
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