The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Product Information
Product Details: The Sheltering Sky (1990)
- Edition:
- DVD Widescreen. See other editions
- MPAA Rating:
- R
- Release Date:
- 09/03/2002
- UPC:
- 085391206224
- Directed by:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Featuring:
- Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott. See all cast
Synopsis: The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Synopis: 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.Features: The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Features: DVD Features:Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Single Side - Dual Layer
Additional Release Material:
Featurette
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Text/Galleries:
Film Highlights - 1. Bernardo Bertolucci - Director
2. Debra Winger - Star
3. John Malkovich - Star
User Reviews: Sheltering Sky
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In over your head.
, August 18, 2003Reviewer: dc0415 - See all dc0415's reviewsThis is the story of a young couple wealthy and arrogant (ignorant) enough to travel to and enter into a dangerous world they know nothing about. This real world was always there, but mostly inaccessible to Western travelers. Their petty shallowness quickly burns off in the desert, and the sole survivor is forever transformed by the experience. A dark, existential cautionary tale. ...
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