BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Wednesday 1. July at 21:00 - 23:14
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Ang Lee | 2005 | USA | 2h14m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is a useful reminder that taking a summer job with a handsome cowboy in the Wyoming mountains can have serious long-term consequences.
In 1963, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are hired to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain. What starts as isolation slowly becomes intimacy, and then something neither man has the language, safety, or freedom to carry openly into the world below. After the summer ends, their lives continue in expected directions. Marriage. Work. Children. Distance. But neither man fully escapes what happened between them.
Ang Lee directs the film with unusual restraint. The landscape is vast, but the emotional world is narrow and tightly controlled. Small gestures matter. A look, a shirt, a silence, a visit that doesn’t last long enough. Heath Ledger gives one of the great performances of the 2000s as Ennis, a man so locked inside himself that every word he speaks sounds like it's fighting to escape his lips. Jake Gyllenhaal’s Jack is more open, more hopeful, and more willing to imagine another life, which only makes the distance between them harder to bear.
When it was released, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN became a major cultural event, praised, mocked, argued over, and endlessly reduced by people who didn’t know what to do with its quiet seriousness. Two decades later, the film stands much clearer. It’s not just a landmark queer romance. It’s one of the finest American films about repression, class, masculinity, and the brutal cost of living half a life.
Please note: this film contains adult themes. Viewer discretion is advised.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00,.serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
