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.