Great Performances

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2008)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
**** (out of 4)
Ang Lee's film about two cowboys (Heath Ledger/Jake Gyllenhaal) who come to have feelings towards one another but they live in a world where they can't be together. First things first but someone should tell the mainstream media that this isn't the first film to feature gay men. The political storm around the movie has probably kept a lot of people away, which is a shame because this is a pretty damn good film. I think the love story between the two men is a lot less interesting than when the two men are away from one another dealing with their other lives. The stuff between Ledger and his wife (Michelle Williams) was the best part of the film for me. The three performances are all great, especially Ledger who doesn't have much to say in the film so all the emotion has to come from his eyes.