The Sheltering Sky ( 1990 )

The Sheltering Sky ( 1990 ) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
138 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

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:

From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love and adding some zest to their lackluster lives. Along for the ride is the pair's friend George Tunner (Campbell Scott), who soon begins having an affair with Kit. As they struggle through the numbing heat of Africa amidst the sudden love triangle, each of the trio sees his and her beliefs and lives challenged. The Sheltering Sky earned a Best Director nomination for Bertolucci at the 1991 Golden Globe Awards.

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.

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