A magnificent movie on friendship and love between two men.

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2006)

Two young broke men are hired by a farmer to tend a sheep flock on rugged meadows of Brokeback Mountain in the Wyoming. The living conditions in the mountain are mot very simples and give opportunities of connection between the two men. One evening, after drinking too much, they sleep together and have homosexual relations. This is the beginning of a love story between them. But they don't wish these relations to be regular, only one time a year and only on this mountain. Several years later, both of them are married. Ennis is always a cowboy and his wife, Alma, works into a supermarket and they have two children. Jack has married Cassie, the daughter of a rich farm equipment seller, and they have a boy. Nevertheless, Ennis and Jack continue once a year to spend some time together under the pretext of fishing parties. This relationship will be the reason of rupture of Ennis' couple and perturbation of Jack's sexual life. But both men must not ever forget love, which has tied them, and that even Jack's death cannot destroys. The filming of that movie is very beautiful with splendid landscapes and the acting of the two major actors, Jake Gillenhaal and Heath Ledger, is remarkable, true and touching. With such a difficult subject put on the screen, Ang Lee' movie is full of correctness and simplicity.