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Article: Lee's `Brokeback' reveals remarkable range.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- February 4, 2006
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"BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN"
Universal, $29.98, with featurettes, available Tuesday.
Grade: A
Halfway through "Brokeback Mountain," you may forget you are watching a love story between two men. Despite being derided and parodied as that "gay cowboy film," the most talked-about movie of 2005 shies away from the political. It tells an intensely personal story of two young men who unexpectedly fall in love in 1963 Wyoming. What they feel is a mystery to themselves, and they spend the next 20 years denying their feelings and bringing sorrow to themselves and everyone in their paths. Unlike so many other films, "Brokeback Mountain" doesn't tell you how to ...