Brokeback Mountain at Brattle Theatre

Brattle Theatre

Ang Lee won a Best Director Oscar and jerked tears from audiences across America with Brokeback Mountain (2005), in which Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger play lovesick cowpokes who move from homophobic Wyoming to San Francisco and open a riding-apparel boutique. Or was that the alternate ending? It’s part of a Brattle Theatre twin bill with Lee’s steamy and underappreciated Lust, Caution (2007), which is about sleeping with the enemy in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II. The Brattle’s at 40 Brattle St, Cambridge | $9.50 | 617.876.6837 or //www.brattlefilm.org.

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