Brokeback Mountain (2005), Ang Lee creates a moving and tragic love-story with a distance, based on Annie Proulx's short story, (adapted by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry). Starting off in Wyoming 1963, this has young cowboys Ennis Del Mar (the late, great Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) employed as ranch hands, but whilst isolated in the wilderness, a passionate encounter changes their lives forever, even affecting their family life, which leads to eventually resentment after nearly 20 years. At least a director as daring as Ang Lee has the guts to make a western that tackles a somewhat taboo issue in America, but Ledger and Gyllenhaal are brilliant in the leads, why they didn't win Oscars is anyone's guess... 4/5
