The Sheltering Sky (1990)

The Sheltering Sky (1990) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
139 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bernardo Bertolucci

Written By:
Paul Bowles
Mark Peploe

Actors:
Debra Winger ..... Kit Moresby
John Malkovich ..... Port Moresby
Campbell Scott ..... George Tunner
Jill Bennett ..... Mrs. Lyle
Timothy Spall ..... Eric Lyle
Eric Vu-An ..... Belqassim
Amina Annabi ..... Mahrnia
Philippe Morier-Genoud ..... Captain Broussard
Sotigui Kouyaté ..... Abdelkader (as Sotigui Kouyate)
Tom Novembre ..... French Immigration Officer
Ben Smaïl ..... Smail
Kamel Cherif ..... Ticket Seller
Afifi Mohamed ..... Mohamed
Brahim Oubana ..... Young Arab
Carolyn De Fonseca ..... Miss Ferry

Synopsis:

Port and Kit Moresby (John Malkovich and Debra Winger) are American artists and self-styled 'travelers' (as opposed to tourists) exploring Saharan Africa. Their 10-year marriage is strained enough to be threatened by the presence of their boorish companion, Tunner (Campbell Scott), who has designs on Kit. The couple's restlessness, along with a kind of fascination with their own estrangement, keeps them moving further away from civilization and from infidelity. Port grows ill, however, and Kit finds herself alone in the desert, cut off from everything she knows. Director Bernardo Bertolucci and director of photography Vittorio Storaro fabulously capture the forbidding beauty of the Saharan locations, as well as Malkovich's brooding self-assurance and Winger's artless sexuality. The color schemes of red and blue serve the story of lovers who live on different emotional planes. Paul Bowles, the expatriate author whose semiautobiographical novel is the basis for the film, comments on the action as a narrator and one-man chorus. He warns Kit, and the viewer, that life is far more finite than one habitually imagines, and that the chance to put things right will not wait forever.

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.

An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 30 November, 2016.