The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky

  • Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Writer: Paul Bowles,Mark Peploe,Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Italy
  • Language: English, French, Arabic
  • Release date: December 12, 1990
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Himmel über der Wüste
  • "The Sheltering Sky" is a romantic film directed by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Debra Winger , John Malkovich and Campbell Scott .
    Based on Paul Bowles ' novel "The Sheltering Sky" of the same name, the film tells the story of a couple who left the prosperous American city after World War II and came to the African desert, trying to make up the distance between each other's hearts through a desert excursion.

    Details

    • Release date December 12, 1990
    • Filming locations Ait Benhaddou, Morocco
    • Production companies Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Aldrich Group, Film Trustees Ltd.

    Box office

    Budget

    $25,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,075,084

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $82,753

    Gross worldwide

    $2,075,084

    Movie reviews

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    • By Reagan 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      Feelings shaded under the shaded sky

      A desperate film.

      The film tells the story of three Yankees who went to the French colony. The French don't like it, and the locals don't like it either. What's more desperate is that these three people are also good-looking, each with their own little 99.

      The film can be described in terms of its superficial features. The post-war reflection, the conflict between the civilized world and the primitive world, love, disease, death, new life, leaving, is a serious didactic that...

    • By Frederic 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      shaded sky

      The Sahara Desert, I learned from reading San Mao's books in junior high school, that was the first author I liked, so that every summer I seem to read her books off and on again.

      It seems that summer should belong to the Sahara Desert. During the day, it is like a fire, and at night it is like a quiet cradle. Makes you want to fall asleep there.

      In the past two days, I suddenly became curious about the Sahara Desert. I...

    • By Wilford 2022-03-24 09:03:49

      happy but not happy

      I love Bertolucci,
      the crescent moon and camel bells in the desert;



      the golden light in the sunset,
      the wilderness of beautiful women and handsome men,
      Ryuichi Sakamoto;



      I don’t like liars and thieves,
      I don’t like malaria flies and sandstorms,
      I don't like that there is no one to help in a difficult situation.
      "Death separates loved ones forever" is really annoying.




      I'm not Sanmao, I don't have Jose,...

    • By Dan 2022-03-24 09:03:49

      This is an afterthought~ not a movie review

      1. The story of a few hypocritical sluts.

      2. It can be used as a landscape film. It is said that it has become a romance film that should not be made. In fact, I think it is a drama film. There are very deep and very dark things in it, and the director does not directly express or emphasize it.

      For example:

      a helpless woman can only pay for a ride in an unfamiliar area, and people will not pull you in vain.

      The flag at home does not fall, the flag...

    • By Alisha 2022-03-24 09:03:49

      Life is being wasted and remembered again

      Wen Ding Xiaolong


        likes a movie, first of all from her posters. A woman in black, windy and sincere desert. A back, we can't see her face, but when a person walks in the desert, a lonely person. What she felt, perhaps only the person concerned could experience. As a sensory feeler, I like strong color references like this, maybe a story, maybe not. Maybe it has something to do with myself, maybe it doesn't have much to do with myself. However, I can always describe a person...

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    • By Abagail 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      That sky, no matter how many times I look at it, is so quiet and beautiful. Ordinary days kill love, but death can wake it up like thunder, make it sublime, and cause the soul to be buried. You look at her eyes, what a huge difference before and after. Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack is always so perfect, and Bertolucci is always able to interpret exotic flavors so...

    • By Kevon 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      Very good, photography and music performances have...

    • By Alexandria 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      Actually better than The Painted Veil, although they are almost...

    • By Wayne 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      From the beginning of the tour to the final exile. It is not only the body but also the humanity that is engulfed by the Sahara. Well...

    • By Syble 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      When I watched comfort of the strangers, I suddenly remembered this piece. The discovery of Wikipedia, the original work was written in 1949, and the background is set in 1947. After the war, the first generation of confused middle class went directly to North Africa, until the nth generation of young women had an affair with the wretched uncle in Tokyo, carrying forward the lost...

    Movie plot

    Porter and his wife Kit came to North Africa from New York with the intention of taking a long trip across the Sahara desert with their friend George. At an inn on the edge of the desert they meet Mrs Lyle and her eccentric son Eric. Seduced by a prostitute who wants to rob her, Potter returns to the hotel disheveled, only to discover that George is too attentive to his wife. Potter hitchhiked the mother and son to the first town on...
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    Evaluation action

    "The Sheltering Sky" is not the best of all the director's works, but the last third of the film was shot by Bertolucci, and the ultimate beauty in the desert was collected by his shots. The artistic power and ideological connotation of the film are also in the latter third. This third makes people feel a kind of heart-wrenching pain and oppressive pain. It is a bloody revelation. There is something more uncomfortable than death here....
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    Movie quotes

    • Port Moresby: You know, if Tunner didn't take such long siestas, I'd never be alone with you. I think he's in love with you.

      Kit Moresby: Port, don't be silly.

      Port Moresby: Sillier things have happened. The way he hangs around making inane conversation, the way he looks at you when he fingers his DDT can...

      Kit Moresby: What else?

      Port Moresby: Oh, the ferocity with which he counts your luggage.

      Kit Moresby: Oh, he counts yours too.

      Port Moresby: It's not the same.

    • Kit Moresby: Someday they're gonna kick the French out of this country.

      Port Moresby: Well, with trousers like that, who can blame them?

    • Tunner: Do you think, uh, Port suspects something?

      Kit Moresby: I think he knows, but he doesn't know that he knows.