(FILM) The gay cowboy movie has finally arrived. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal make cute ranch hands, and there is indeed
hot sex in a pup tent. (Not to mention bracingly gorgeous cinematography.) It single-handedly resuscitates
star-crossed love for the modern age, attributing the conflict not to familial rivalries or class disparities but to the whole
crushing weight of ideology.
Brokeback Mountain is sad and exhilarating. (
See Movie Times, p. 91, for details.) ANNIE WAGNER