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The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby (John Malkovich, Debra Winger), who are searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship, drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Bertolucci's grand desert epic gets stuck in the sand right at the start.
December 06, 2005
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
Brimming with obscure meaning and devoid of drive and fervor, the film dries up in that symbolic desert sun, the victim of its own pretensions and a casualty of trying to film something best suited to the realm of cult literature.
Soul searching is rarely a thrill a minute but it's rarely as tedious as this. ...Oscar-bait it may be, but "The Sheltering Sky" is more deserving of the First Annual Chicken Little Award.