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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790770079
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790770075
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 03, 2002
Running Time: 138 minutes
Sales Rank: 7716
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1990
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The creative team behind 1987's nine-time Oscar-winning 'The Last Emperor' -- director Bernardo Bertolucci producer Jeremy Thomas and screenwriter Mark Peloe -- reunite for this fascinating film starring Academy Award-nominees Debra Winger ('Shadowlands' 'Terms of Endearment') and John Malkovich ('In the Line of Fire' 'Dangerous Liaisons') and rising star Campbell Scott ('Singles'). Based on the classic novel by Paul Bowles this visually stunning sensual film rich in setting and storytelling chronicles the relationships among three travelers through post-war North Africa.Running Time: 138 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391206224
Amazon.com essential video:
Master filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci applies his considerable talent to this haunting adaptation of the Paul Bowles novel. John Malkovich and Debra Winger play Port and Kit Moresby, characters loosely based on Bowles and his wife Jane, who flee New York for North Africa, where they hope to find mystical truths that will reignite the spark of their marriage. But instead they lose their moral bearings (with help from a friend, played by Campbell Scott, who has an affair with Kit) while traveling deeper and deeper into the Sahara. Before long, what started as a vacation at exotic lodgings has descended into a tour of hell, as they stumble farther and farther into an unknowable spiritual territory. Though long and at times slow-moving, the film features marvelously nuanced acting by Malkovich and Winger and visionary filmmaking that makes the landscape at once picturesque and threatening. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Paul Bowles Novel Comes to the Screen
Sheltering Sky is a great novel; the atmospherics of "place" -- Sahara desert -- play a big role. The film combines Bernardo Bertolucci and John Malkovich and is perfect, but dark. Lots of footage on the lives of Sahara nomads interpersed with the plot. Supporting cast is excellent. I think it helps to have read the book.
Rating:  - THE FABULOUS BERNARDO
Dear Guys and gals, searching for an evening to relax with a wonderfeul movie. Then go nowhere else. Sit back in your couch, an arm round your girl friend, and view Bernardo Bertulucci's 'The Sheltering Sky'. It is a fabulous movie which I am sure you will enjoy very much. Think i'm jokin'? nah.. why should I . My aunt in India, a Carnatic Musician(what a mouthful), is gonna send me The DVD of The Sheltering Sky as soon as she gets it. The Amazon US guys, are very prompt. I only hope, the amazon ... Read More
Rating:  - Finding Meaning While Following the Lost
I couldn't find the edition I read of "The Sheltering Sky" here on [...] but my copy includes an introduction by Paul Bowles written a year or so before he died. In the introduction, he says "the less said about the film version, the better."
(His only other comment about the film was to mock the filmmakers for trying to make Debra Winger look like his wife Jane and sell the story as a thinly-veiled account of their trip into the Sahara...a trip that Bowles swears he never took with ... Read More
Rating: - Quick Sand
I love Bertolucci and I love Paul Bowles, but I think this movie fails both artists. It is, of course, a stunning visual masterpiece, as usual it must be said, because of the cinematographer. It is luscious and hypnotic, no doubt about that. I think the weakness is in the cast who, although talented in their own ways, really fail here. Winger is capable of greatness; she is terrific in many films, but here she seems so weak, no passionless. Malkovich is the darling of the art set, but doesn't really ... Read More
Rating: - Bertolucci's most underrated film, and a masterpiece...
This is definitely Bertolucci's most underrated film. It's a real masterpiece. It's incredibly cinematic, well acted, deep, and mysterious. John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott, and Timothy Spall gives great performances, and it's another film that showcases Bertolucci's brilliant camera work (again lensed by Vittorio Storario), and Bertolucci's mastery of erotic cinema. The last 45 minutes or so of this film has almost no dialogue (unheard of in a film released by a major studio), but you ... Read More
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