Doña Herlinda y su hijo (1985)
A film about a closeted doctor and his younger boyfriend and the doctor’s mother, Doña Herlinda. She understands her son is gay and asks the younger man to live with her son in her house. Still, she wants her son to get married to a woman (and have grandchildren). This of course requires a major deception which the mother helps to maintain. It’s kind of a sweet love story in parts. And really quite good for an 80’s film — in fact, it’s nice to see a film without the recent tiresome depictions of drugged out boy toys and flamboyant, excessive behavior.
