Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe 134m
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anne Hathaway, Anna Faris, Randy Quaid
Synopsis:
Two cowboys meet and fall in love while spending the summer grazing sheep in the uplands of Wyoming. During the decade or so that follows their marriages and family lives are circumscribed by their need for each other and punctuated by occasional trysts in the outdoors.
Review:
Gentle-paced, sensitively acted and directed, this untypical treatment for a western, adapted from a short story, no doubt put the backers in some state of apprehension, but the film surprised everyone except Lee fans in being garlanded with honours and a box office draw, even in Texas. It is the kind of film which stays with one for a long time afterwards, even if one is not bowled over while watching it.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe 134m
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anne Hathaway, Anna Faris, Randy Quaid
Synopsis:
Two cowboys meet and fall in love while spending the summer grazing sheep in the uplands of Wyoming. During the decade or so that follows their marriages and family lives are circumscribed by their need for each other and punctuated by occasional trysts in the outdoors.
Review:
Gentle-paced, sensitively acted and directed, this untypical treatment for a western, adapted from a short story, no doubt put the backers in some state of apprehension, but the film surprised everyone except Lee fans in being garlanded with honours and a box office draw, even in Texas. It is the kind of film which stays with one for a long time afterwards, even if one is not bowled over while watching it.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe 134m
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anne Hathaway, Anna Faris, Randy Quaid
Synopsis:
Two cowboys meet and fall in love while spending the summer grazing sheep in the uplands of Wyoming. During the decade or so that follows their marriages and family lives are circumscribed by their need for each other and punctuated by occasional trysts in the outdoors.
Review:
Gentle-paced, sensitively acted and directed, this untypical treatment for a western, adapted from a short story, no doubt put the backers in some state of apprehension, but the film surprised everyone except Lee fans in being garlanded with honours and a box office draw, even in Texas. It is the kind of film which stays with one for a long time afterwards, even if one is not bowled over while watching it.