Good film--if you like melodrama; if you don't: avoid.

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2005)

The movie has its moments of great cinematography, acting, and direction. It's great to see a gay movie that doesn't involve dance music, gay lisps, and endless promiscuity. However, the movie was way too long, and talk about melodrama! It seems like every other scene had to involve people breaking down with emotion, which is not necessarily a bad thing (I guess that's why they call it a love story). But, after a while, the emotional scenes gets to be a bit repetitive and, sadly, predictable. If you like that and melodrama, then you'd probably like this film. Another thing: spanning the film over such a long period of time (20+ years of the characters' lives) was a bit distracting. As a result, the film felt a bit unfocused. To sum: I wouldn't say this movie was bad, but it wasn't great. The film had the potential of being innovative, but ends up being just another artificially inflated emotional love story that we've all seen before (minus the gay cowboys).