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The Sheltering Sky|Debra Winger

The Sheltering Sky

Debra Winger and John Malkovich
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Overview

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.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Bernardo Bertolucci - Director
Debra Winger
John Malkovich
Campbell Scott
Jill Bennett
Timothy Spall

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand)
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 888574444433
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: October 2016

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Three Americans find more than they bargained for as they travel through postwar Africa in this adaptation of Paul Bowles's novel. Kit (Debra Winger) and Port (John Malkovich) are a married couple separated by a strange schism; they try to escape their alienation by moving deeper and deeper into the unfamiliar. Port is mesmerized, but it is Kit who must ultimately find the strength to survive in a world so unknown as to be dreamlike.

Notes:
The filmmakers shot on location in Tangier, Morocco; Niger; and Algeria. Following the film's release, the 1949 novel returned to the bestseller list. Kit: "We're not tourists, we're travelers." Tunner: "Oh. What's the difference?" Port: "A tourist is someone who thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner."

Reviews:
"...Vittorio Storaro's photography is brilliant, the most dramatic desert footage since LAWRENCE OF ARABIA..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars - 12/12/1990 USA Today, p.5D


"...Bertolucci's most seductive, most hypnotic movie....[Malkovich and Winger] are extraordinarily fine..." - 12/12/1990 New York Times, p.C15


"...John Malkovich and Debra Winger are superb....And from the film's first moments there is a sense of place both terrifyingly vast and stifling..." - 01/11/1991 Los Angeles Times, p.F12


"[V]isually sumptuous...Debra Winger's Kit Moresby, John Malkovich's Port Moresby and Campbell Scott's George Tunner are feckless Americans embarked on a doomed journey in 1950s Morocco." - 04/10/2014 Wall Street Journal

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