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Loving and being loved.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
Byline: Stefan M Hogan Special to the Spectator
MOVIE Review Brokeback Mountain (Skrotena hora) Starring:Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams Directed by:Ang LeeRunning time:134 minutesRating:10 of 10 ART can often be both deeply beautiful and intensely sad.
Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings (which played in the background of Oliver Stones gripping 1986 masterpiece Platoon) springs to mind as a work that ebbs and flows with the courage, vulnerability, and profound longing of love and loss.
A similar beauty runs through every crag of Brokeback Mountain, the heart-breaking new film by director Ang Lee, which won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director at this years Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Originally belittled as a "gay cowboy movie", Lee crafts it with the same firm compassion he showed in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Wedding Banquet, which also focused on the intricacies of human relationships.
Equally as generous are actors Heath Ledger as Ennis del Mar, an inarticulate cowboy with an unresolved past, and Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist, a bull rider from Texas whos at peace with himself.
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