Excellent, excellent movie. The scenery/cinematography alone is worth the cost of viewing, but the story is powerful… heart-wrenching. The initial sexual encounter may be a bit considered by many to be shocking … very out of the box for mainstream films. In future, every film with a homosexual theme will be compared to this, but it’s as much a Casablanca-style love story as anything else. I cried twice, so bring at least one and maybe two hankies.

And now that I’ve seen this, I can say with confidence that it is a BETTER movie than Crash, which beat it out for the Best Picture Oscar.