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The Sheltering Sky
A woman's dangerous and erotic journey...
A woman's dangerous and erotic journey...
Adventure, Drama - 1990
6.8
50%
N/A
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
138 min
Release date:
25 Oct 1990
Country:
IT, GB
Languages:
Arabic, English, French
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$2,075,084
Awards:
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award9 wins & 8 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
A disappointingly reductive adaptation of Paul Bowles's first novel.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
7 Dec 2007
rotten:
Those who haven't read the book will be left bewildered.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
7 Dec 2007
fresh:
A long, beautifully modulated cry of despair.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
The book is so complete, so deep and so self-contained that it shuts the movie out. Bertolucci shows us the outsides and the surfaces, and a person seeing this movie without having read the book might ask what it is about.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Bowles's gentle, avian features, the obvious wisdom of his years and his distinctive presence are practically worth the price of admission.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
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