The Sheltering Sky

The crew is reflected in the mirror when Kit gets out of bed alone.

The crew is reflected in the bus window before Port bites his tongue.

There is a moment when Port is with Kit in her room, she is sitting and he is caressing her belly.

A good deal of pubic hair is notoriously visible, but immediately follows a closer shot in which she is completely covered.

During the final sequence, when Kit is back to the Grand Hotel and she is waiting in the car, she is wearing white shoes.

But just after, when she escapes and is walking in the streets, she is using brown sandals.

Epic long winding movie about this crazy journeylife and its twists and turn anguish and ecstasty.Incredible experience and photography of the Sahara Desert.

A movie about women and men relationship, discovering distant land, finding some missing part of soul and orientalist perspective to non-western cultures. When you watch the story of Port and Kit, you question yourself.

I discovered this film very recently and very soon after my first reading of the book. The book impressed me greatly, and the film too in other ways.

The sheltering sky can almost be considered a work of art as much as a movie. the cinematography is staggeringly beautiful and the screenplay is excellent.

While good actors, Winger and Malkovich are not particularly charismatic. Campbell Scott, while good-looking, has a lesser role.

Two post-WWII Manhattan sophisticates who travel to avoid standing still embark on a soul-searching expedition into the Sahara Desert, where the beautiful but desolate landscapes provide a mirror to their own troubled relationship. The film is nothing if not exotic, presenting some of the purest visions of the desert since Peter O'Toole first rode a camel in 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

Ultimately, The Sheltering Sky is too long; a film that wears out its welcome when it removes, for its third act, what made it so interesting for its first two. This is before stripping its resources bearer still for the very final few dozen minutes when further dynamics and characters are removed thus killing it off even more.

Have you ever had one of those nights where you couldn't sleep? You wake up tired, but you know you have to go to work the next day.

I'm truly disappointed with this film, not in the sense of throwing something to the screen or cursing everybody involved, but in the sense of almost crying simply because when you heard the names Bertolucci-Winger-Malkovich altogether you want to buy the DVD, buy popcorn and more just to see how wonderful this is and the final result is a big empty in their lives and almost a waste of our time. "The Sheltering Sky" is like a great body without a soul, a tragedy.