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DECEMBER 16. 2005 JUStjOUt 39 film play by Larry McMurtry' (Lonesome Dove) and Yahoo! empathetic, melancholy tone. But some of the Cowpoke love story lives up to the hype neous, particularly a bland pseudo-romance Diana Ossana is a gem that captures Proulx’s scenes and subplots they have added seem extra between Ennis and a woman played by PR's Linda Brokeback Mountain And it’s a tearjerker of the highest order. The end Giddyap, guys and gals! ing leaves a lump in your throat that lasts for hours Brokeback Mountain —quite possibly the most after the final credits roll. Cardellini. Director Ang Lee is perfectly suited to the material, having already dealt with Brokeback eagerly anticipated gay film ever—has finally galloped The action opens in Wyoming in 1963. In an emo Mountain's central themes in his previous films. into town. It has already lassoed Best Picture honors tionally restrained, gut-wrenching performance that He’s an old hat at gay themes (The Wedding from the Venice Film Festival, the New York Film will give Capote's Philip Seymour Hoffman a run for Banquet), and and a beautiful biracial girl, forming a kind of loose Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics his money come Oscar night, Heath Ledger stars as Sensibility) and torturedemotions (The Ice Storm). knit but loving family. And Kitten needs one: He has no Association. Ennis Del Mar. So pony on up to the ticket booth. But be prepared idea who his parents are, a problem that eventually The hype, for once, is all true. Beautiful, haunting Along with Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), Ennis and impeccably acted, this cowboy love story instant spends the summer herding sheep on idyllic ly joins a distinguished rosier of American queer clas Brokeback Mountain. Story swapping leads to rough sics that includes Gus Van Sant’s My Ou n Private housing and, eventually, a passionate and hasty' Idaho, Todd Haynes' Par from Heaven and Kimberly exchange of fluids. Peirce’s Boys Don t Cry. restrained romances (Sense Cillian Murphy struts his stuff in Breakfast on Pluto. for a heartbreaker. pushes him out of small-town Irish life and on to —Stephen Blair London. Once there, his dramatic personality—a mix of fearlessness and coquettish masochism—gets full Breakfast on Pluto play. He meets a lonely magician (Jordan regular Neil Jordan, like anyone with taste, loves his tran Stephen Rea) and becomes his assistant and quasi Ennis and Jack part at the end of the summer. Each nies. The director who mythologized gender-bender girlfriend. He becomes a prostitute, then is nailed— gets married and has kids. They dupe their Jaye Davidson in The Crying Came (and made Tom and tortured—as a suspected Irish Republican Army wives by going on occasional “fishing” trips Cruise look like a drag queen in Interview with the killer when a disco he's at is bombed. In the back together, but Ennis refuses Jack's proposal Vampire) introduces another major tranny diva in ground is Father Bernard (Liam Neeson), a sympa that they ditch traditional family life and set Breakfast on Pluto, a wonderfully complex ode to thetic friend who hears his confessions and even fol tle down together. being different and a sure cure for the winter blues. lows Kitten to London to help him find himself. Ledger and Gyllenhaal are both pinup Set in 1970s Ireland and England, Breakfast stars Opening Dec. 23, Breakfast delicately balances boys. But their acting is so natural and Gillian Murphy as Patrick Braden, who redubs himself whimsy (two bitchy “birds" appear throughout to offer evocative that we cease to think of them as "Kitten” and terrorizes family, school and neighbor commentary on what’s happening) and heartbreak. All hotties soon after the film begins. However hood with his unrepentant drag ways. (The opening this is held together by Murphy’s brilliant incarnation long their careers may last, this will be a scene shows him strutting down a street in haute cou of Kitten, a masterpiece of nuanced emotion. It’s hard defining moment for both of them. ture being propositioned and then insulted by con to imagine even a real queen pulling this off; the fact with that the actor is straight in real life makes it practical Brokeback Mountain started off as a Brokeback Mountain will be a career-defining moment for pinup boys Jake Gyllenhaal (left) and Heath Ledger. fused construction workers.) 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