Deceiving overall

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2006)

(My apology for mistakes, I am french speaking) I had great expectation about this movie. However, in the end, I have to say, I was more bored than anything else. Of course, the cinematography was brilliant, main acting was decent though the supporting actors were even better - wives, girlfriend, stepfather and daughter.
This movie brings absolutely nothing new in the vast spectrum of movie about doomed love. Even the homophobia problematic remains barely touch. It is part of the background. Again, in a classical approach, the plot is completely centered on the two main characters. I wished we could have a better glance at the environment which oppress the heroes. Not so much in the form of more homophobic events but more as how people are knit together in this belief system.
The first half hour or so on Brokeback Mountain is the best part of the movie. It brings with subtlety how within nature, man get free of inhibition created by a social surrounding. The second part is much too long. We get the point quite fast and repetition in this case does not intensify the feeling, it actually diminishes it.
Also, I am not quite sure I really felt sorry for them. May be the acting was not strong enough to make me believe this love affair. I wonder how gay people really felt about it since gay movies have dealt with this issue with much less modesty in the past.
In the end, I find I should give a 7 because of a strong beginning, a beautiful cinematography and some excellent scenes - like when the daughter announces she is getting married.