Brokeback Mountain, which opens today, presents a thoughtful, disturbing and moving story of love and repression. The principals are cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger in his best role to date) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) who meet while tending sheep during the summer of 1963 on Brokeback Mountain.

Neither can understand their attraction, resist it, or completely accept and embrace it. Yet they also don