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Tag Archives: Cowboy
Brokeback Mountain (2005) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A classic tale of star-crossed romance
Ang Lee’s 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain” has endured the test of time pretty well during last 20 years to my little surprise. While I regarded it as a major breakthrough in several aspects at that time, I also wondered whether … Continue reading
Strange Way of Life (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little western tale by Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar’s short film “Strange Way of Life”, which is incidentally his second English-language work after his previous short film “The Human Voice” (2020), is a little gay western as colorful and melodramatic as you can expect from its genre … Continue reading
The Rider (2017) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): The tale of a young rodeo cowboy
“The Rider”, a small independent film which was recently shown at the Jeonju International Film Festival, is a quiet but mesmerizing work of haunting beauty and aching poetry. Calmly and closely looking into a plain young hero and how he … Continue reading
