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The Sheltering Sky (1990) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Dec 12, 1990
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 2002
Budget USD 25,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 18 minutes
Country UK, Italy
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Sheltering Sky
• Himmel über der Wüste (1990)
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Genre: Drama, On The Road, Suspense, Psychodrama, Infidelity, Erotic, Marriage, Love Triangle
Plot: 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.
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| Written by |
| Mark Peploe
The Last Emperor, Profession: reporter, Afraid of the Dark |
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| Cast |
Debra Winger
An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, Radio |
 | John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich, Con Air, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
 | Timothy Spall
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Last Samurai, Vanilla Sky |
 | Campbell Scott
The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Spanish Prisoner, Singles | | | Amina Annabi
The Hour of the Pig, Belle histoire, La, Inch'Allah dimanche | |
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