Brokeback Mountain
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“There ain't never enough time, never enough...”
Overview
Ang Lee’s compassionate epic of love and longing, Brokeback Mountain was a watershed moment for queer stories in mainstream cinema that remains affecting more than twenty years on. In 1963 two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), take on a summer sheep herding job through the grazing pastures of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. It is that fateful summer that their lives change forever – a powerful romance catches them by surprise, costs them their job and splits them on different paths. Years later after both have separately married and had kids, Jack pays Ennis a visit, reigniting their flame and leaving an impact on each-other’s families.
Why You Should See This Film
Despite winning the Golden Lion at Venice and scoring Academy Awards for Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Original Score Brokeback Mountain infamously lost Best Picture to Crash (yeah, not the Cronenberg one), sparking outrage and solidifying this already brilliant film as a milestone in mainstream queer cinema. Led by two truly remarkable performances by Ledger and Gyllenhaal and a phenomenal supporting cast including Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, this adaptation of the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx portraits love, longing and rural repression with complexity, sensitivity and the bittersweet majesty of Middle America’s natural scenery; vistas that unite, isolate and ache with longing.
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