The Sheltering Sky
The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby (John Malkovich, Debra Winger), who are searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship, drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
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19 July 1936, Bamako, Mali
30 December 1910, Queens, New York, USA
9 December 1953, Christopher, Illinois, USA
6 October 1938, Bucharest, Romania
8 November 1959, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
5 March 1962, Carthage, Tunisia
26 July 1952, Marrakech, Morocco
19 April 1960, Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
19 July 1961, New York City, New York, USA
2 March 1944
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
25 May 1929, United States
24 December 1931, Penang, Malaysia
December 07, 2007
Brimming with obscure meaning and devoid of drive and fervor, the film dries up in that symbolic desert sun, the victim of its own pretensions and a casualty of trying to film something best suited to the realm of cult literature.
December 07, 2007
Those who haven't read the book will be left bewildered.
January 01, 2000
The book is so complete, so deep and so self-contained that it shuts the movie out. Bertolucci shows us the outsides and the surfaces, and a person seeing this movie without having read the book might ask what it is about.
December 06, 2005
Bertolucci's grand desert epic gets stuck in the sand right at the start.
March 11, 2011
Filled with stunning visuals.
December 07, 2007
A disappointingly reductive adaptation of Paul Bowles's first novel.
June 24, 2006
As you'd expect, it's a big, handsome film, rich and strange in psychological depths and eroticism. Malkovich and Winger play woundingly well.
December 07, 2007
Disappointing.
August 05, 2003
Soul searching is rarely a thrill a minute but it's rarely as tedious as this. ...Oscar-bait it may be, but "The Sheltering Sky" is more deserving of the First Annual Chicken Little Award.
January 01, 2000
[A] frustrating, monotonously obscure movie.
January 30, 2004
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May 20, 2003
A long, beautifully modulated cry of despair.
