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The Sheltering Sky
It is the story of American artists Porte and Kate Moresby (John Malkovich and Debra Winger), who are fighting a battle with their contemporary reality. Now, the duo are looking for new experiences that can give new meaning to their lives, especially their relationship. In a short period, the pair appear to be drifting into the void in North Africa after the war during that period.
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19 July 1936, Bamako, Mali
5 March 1962, Carthage, Tunisia
8 November 1959, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
24 December 1931, Penang, Malaysia
6 October 1938, Bucharest, Romania
2 March 1944
26 July 1952, Marrakech, Morocco
25 May 1929, United States
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
30 December 1910, Queens, New York, USA
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
19 July 1961, New York City, New York, USA
19 April 1960, Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.
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 30, 2004
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March 11, 2011
Filled with stunning visuals.
December 06, 2005
Bertolucci's grand desert epic gets stuck in the sand right at the start.
May 20, 2003
A long, beautifully modulated cry of despair.
December 07, 2007
Disappointing.
December 07, 2007
A disappointingly reductive adaptation of Paul Bowles's first novel.
January 01, 2000
[A] frustrating, monotonously obscure movie.
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.
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
Those who haven't read the book will be left bewildered.
