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‘Brokeback Mountain’ Romance of two cowboys

Academy awarded film adaptation of E. Annie Proulx’s story ‘Brokeback Mountain’ starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as young cowboys will be screened at 6 pm on Tuesday June 23 at the American Center, Galle Road, Colombo-03.

The 2005 American romantic-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1981, was directed by Taiwanese director Ang Lee from a screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry.

Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men – a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy – who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.

Early one morning in Signal, Wyoming, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) meet while lining up for employment with local rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid). The world which Ennis and Jack have been born into is at once changing rapidly and yet scarcely evolving. Both young men seem certain of their set places in the heartland – obtaining steady work, marrying, and raising a family – and yet hunger for something beyond what they can articulate. When Aguirre dispatches them to work as sheepherders up on the majestic Brokeback Mountain, they gravitate towards camaraderie and then a deeper intimacy.

The winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was honoured with Best Picture and Best Director accolades from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild of America, Critics Choice Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards among many other organizations and festivals.

 
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