offensive, overlong and heterosexual

Rating: 1/10 (15 September 2009)

two cowboys meet, fall in lust, marry and continue their relationship behind their wife's backs, mope about...
That's about it for this film. I know other people may claim it's a great love story but, frankly, there allot better ones out there and there's decidedly more Queer ones too.
This film concerns the relationship between two bisexual cowboys who are (alas!) torn apart and eventually destroyed because of their love. Well isn't that an example of Heterosexual Cinema's love affair with the suffering homosexual? Everything is present and correct for a Homophobic representation of Queer Men: the disgust at their sexuality, the pain and suffering and one is even killed by the end of the film (one is reminded of the convention of the Queer dieing in the last reel.) A step forward? A Gay classic? No, just another Heterosexual movie, just another violence visited on the metaphorical (and, within the frame of the movie, actual) flesh of Queer people, just another white Heterosexual Liberal movie for white Heterosexual Liberals.
On a formal level the film is well shot but overlong. Given it's excessive running time the film can't even manage any real character development: the lead characters go round in circles and the female characters are thin and unconvincing.
1 out of 10 and that's just because there's a pretty mountain in the opening scene.