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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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25 May 1929, United States
24 December 1931, Penang, Malaysia
26 July 1952, Marrakech, Morocco
6 October 1938, Bucharest, Romania
25 December 1935, El-Jadida, Morocco
19 July 1936, Bamako, Mali
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
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.
May 20, 2003
A long, beautifully modulated cry of despair.
January 30, 2004
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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
Disappointing.
December 07, 2007
Those who haven't read the book will be left bewildered.
December 06, 2005
Bertolucci's grand desert epic gets stuck in the sand right at the start.
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.
January 01, 2000
[A] frustrating, monotonously obscure movie.
December 07, 2007
A disappointingly reductive adaptation of Paul Bowles's first novel.
March 11, 2011
Filled with stunning visuals.