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The Sheltering Sky is a 1990 drama film co-written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich. The film is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Paul Bowles about a couple who journey to North Africa in the hopes of rekindling their marriage but soon fall prey to the dangers that surround them.
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After having deservedly been showered with Oscar statues in 1988 for The Last Emperor, Bertolucci basically tries the same cinematic principle, with an adaptation of a celebrated novel. I have not read it, but judging from fans, it is a dense and highly psychological experience. Transforming that into another media format sounds like a mammoth task and not really something fitting for a director of world class cinem…More