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Ang Lee's gay film wins Golden Lion at Venice
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-12 08:48
Ang Lee's tale of the homosexual love between two cowboys set in the
conservative West of the 1960s won the Venice Film Festival's top award
Saturday.
Film director Ang
Lee of Taiwan receives the Golden Lion for the best film at the Lido,
during the awards ceremony of the 62nd Venice International Film Festival.
Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain,' is a film about homosexual love between
two cowboys.[AFP] |
"Brokeback Mountain,"
starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, topped 19 other competitors,
including favorite "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's black-and-white
movie set in the McCarthy era of the early 1950s.
Receiving the Golden Lion award, Lee described his movie as a "great American
love story" that is "unique and so universal."
"I'm so glad it's prevailed here and was received so warmly here," he said.
Based on a novella by "The Shipping News" author E. Annie Proulx, the movie
has sweeping vistas, lonesome men, bucking broncos and smoldering campfires. It
also has sex scenes between two men whose lives are changed, disturbed and
entwined after being hired to tend sheep for a summer in Wyoming.
Lee's other films include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon," "Hulk," "The Ice Storm" and "Sense and Sensibility."
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