Brokeback Mountain (2005) 7/10

Starring : Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Director : Ang Lee
Running Time : 135 mins

It’s 1963, and Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) and Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) are working in the Wyoming mountains, working together as sheep herds, but as the weeks go by, they develop an unhealthy attachment to each other which eventual results in a romantic attachment that spans twenty years. As they try to get on with their lives, each of them getting married, they still return to the mountains each year to relive their summer together.

This movie was okay, but it was just so long. Granted, it’s meant to take place over a period of twenty years, but it didn’t have to feel like it. Ledger and Gyllenhaal are both brilliantly believable in their roles, and Ledger himself manages to pull off the notion that he has aged as time passed. Fans of high drama will enjoy this, but you really need a long attention span to keep with it from start to finish.

You’ll like this if you liked : My Own Private Idaho