One of the most poetic love stories ever told (and ever performed)

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2015)

Brokeback Mountain started filming on May 23, 2004 and was premiere at the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia on September 2, 2005 and released in the States on December 9, 2005. What can I say about this wonderful and poetic movie and Heath's superb portrayal of a tormented gay cowboy that has not been already said? Director Ang Lee is amazing, the music (Gustavo Santaolalla) is touching and beautiful, the cinematography (Rodrigo Pietro) is exquisite and the performances of Heath (Ennis Del Mar) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Jack Twist) are really stunning. Anne Hathaway is quite good and poor unfriendly Ms. Williams couldn't even get the accent right. Although the movie was banned in China and got protests from stupid-right-wing-Republicans in America, the world, especially Europe, loved it. Brokeback Mountain was very important for the gay movement, but the point is that it is a love story, not a gay love story: "It transcends a label. It's a story of two human being who are in love; get over the fact that it's two men –that's the point" . The film is based on a short story written by Annie Proulx (originally published in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997). The script was written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Was Ossana who was fascinated by Heath, when she saw him in Monster's Ball. MacMurtry says: "Diana (Ossana) asked that I watch the first 20 minutes of Monster's Ball to see Heath performance (...) After seeing him in that role, I felt that he had what it would take to play Ennis Del Mar –he was that powerful". About kissing another man (a stupid sexist question that many interviewers asked Heath), Heath said: "My biggest anxiety wasn't having to kiss Jake (...) It was a perfect script and Ang Lee was the perfect director. So the anxiety for me was – I didn't want to be the one to f+++ it up" . Heath describes Ennis Del Mar as "(an) homophobic male in love with another man" . Everybody knows that Heath got an Oscar nomination and that, unfairly, he didn't get the award. Although all the Brokeback Mountain and Heath fans were probably very disappointed, since Heath didn't believe at all in awards, he probably didn't care.