i loved saint frances, and i have no hesitation in recommending it.he cinema. # i once was lost, but now am found... all right, well, that was neither amazing nor graceful. also opening in a number of uk cinemas this week is stage mother, in which jacki weaver plays maybelline, the director of a conservative texas church choir, who inherits a san francisco gay bar when her estranged son dies. maybelline's husband is a straight—arrow stick in the mud who refused to accept his son's sexuality, causing the family to split apart. are you ricky's mom, from texas? but now, maybelline sees a chance to make peace with the past to become a surrogate mum to the boys in the band and turn a rundown drag show into a crowd—pulling success. back in the ‘90s, films like priscilla, queen of the desert and to wong foo, thanks for everything, julie newmar provided multiplex friendly portrayals of drag culture, along with mike nichols‘ the birdcage, a star—studded us remake of la cage aux folles. now, whatever those films' flaws, they seemed at the time broadly ground—br