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Article: Life pardners: Brokeback Mountain is the best (gay cowboy) movie of the year. Period.
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, the new gay-cowboy movie, could hardly have more going for it. At the Venice Film Festival, where it had its world premiere a couple of months ago, it won the top prize, the Golden Lion--the first time this prestigious award has ever gone to a film about gay cowboys. Adapted from a short story about gay cowboys by Pulitzer-prize winner Annie Proulx (The Shipping News), the film was directed by Academy Award nominee Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Heath Ledger, as one of the film's gay cowboys (the other gay cowboy is played by Jake Gyllenhaal), gives the most astonishing performance I've seen all year--quietly volcanic, his character's ...