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Brokeback Mountain

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Original title

Brokeback Mountain

Year

2005

Running time

134 min.

Country

United States

Director

Ang Lee

Screenwriter

Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana. Story: E. Annie Proulx

Cast

Music

Gustavo Santaolalla

Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto

Producer

Focus Features, River Road Entertainment, Good Machine, Alberta Filmworks

Genre

Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. Gay & Lesbian. 1960s. Small Town Life (North-american)

Synopsis

The story of two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.

Rankings Position

#122 Best LGTBIQ+ Productions

Awards: 2005: 3 Academy Awards: Director, Adapted Screenplay, OST. 8 Nominations

2005: 4 Golden Globes, including Best Movie Drama, Director. 7 Nominations

2005: 4 Awards BAFTA: Movie, Supp. Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Director. 9 Nom.

2005: National Board of Review: Best Director (Ang Lee), Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal)

2005: Film Critics Circle of New York: Best Film, Director & Actor (Ledger). 4 Nom.

2005: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Picture & Director. 3 Nom.

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Critics' reviews

"Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion"

David Ansen: Newsweek
"It's possible to point to some weak spots in Brokeback but there is no movie this year that has moved my heart more than 'Brokeback Mountain'"

Marjorie Baumgarten: Austin Chronicle
"'Brokeback Mountain' aspires to an epic sweep and achieves it, though with singular intimacy and grace."

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
"Gently unfolds into an epic, heartbreaking love story that's far greater than the sum of its parts"

Jami Bernard: New York Daily News
"Isn't for everyone, but for those who are not bothered by the homosexual relationship, it offers a study in yearning, love, and loss"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"This slow and stoic movie, hailed as a gay Western, feels neither gay nor especially Western: it is a study of love under siege"

Anthony Lane: The New Yorker
"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn"

Stephen Holden: The New York Times
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Ranking Lists Position

5 My Top 10 Movies from 2005 (431)
10 My Favorite Romantic Dramas (232)
44 Most Moving Movies (97)
48 Overrated Movies (137)
50 Movies with a Great Male Lead (80)
51 Best Movies I've Seen in Theaters Lately (32)
53 My Favorite Dramas (211)
54 My Top 20 Movies from the 2000s (127)
60 Underrated Movies (54)
88 Movies with an Incredible Soundtrack (OST) (137)
94 Popular Movies I Hate (32)
96 Movies I Liked More the Second Time I Watched Them (16)

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