The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Country: GB/IT
Technical: Technicolor/Technovision 138m
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall
Synopsis:
Shortly after the war a couple of wealthy Americans, accompanied initially by an even wealthier friend, visit N. Africa to wander indeterminately on a self-destructive path towards the limits of their experience.
Review:
One of those Bertolucci films about the loneliness of lost souls, inevitably pretentious-sounding in synopsis, but as close as cinema can get to the essence of modern man's 'mal de vivre' without being literary and verbose. It leaves much, therefore, unsaid but resides in an artistic niche left by Gide's L'Immoraliste and other works inspired by the terrifying impassivity of the African landscape and culture, works which attempt to articulate the restless search by Europeans for something 'other'. Having said that, there is a distracting number of stunningly beautiful vistas to lull the brain into inactivity.
Country: GB/IT
Technical: Technicolor/Technovision 138m
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall
Synopsis:
Shortly after the war a couple of wealthy Americans, accompanied initially by an even wealthier friend, visit N. Africa to wander indeterminately on a self-destructive path towards the limits of their experience.
Review:
One of those Bertolucci films about the loneliness of lost souls, inevitably pretentious-sounding in synopsis, but as close as cinema can get to the essence of modern man's 'mal de vivre' without being literary and verbose. It leaves much, therefore, unsaid but resides in an artistic niche left by Gide's L'Immoraliste and other works inspired by the terrifying impassivity of the African landscape and culture, works which attempt to articulate the restless search by Europeans for something 'other'. Having said that, there is a distracting number of stunningly beautiful vistas to lull the brain into inactivity.
Country: GB/IT
Technical: Technicolor/Technovision 138m
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall
Synopsis:
Shortly after the war a couple of wealthy Americans, accompanied initially by an even wealthier friend, visit N. Africa to wander indeterminately on a self-destructive path towards the limits of their experience.
Review:
One of those Bertolucci films about the loneliness of lost souls, inevitably pretentious-sounding in synopsis, but as close as cinema can get to the essence of modern man's 'mal de vivre' without being literary and verbose. It leaves much, therefore, unsaid but resides in an artistic niche left by Gide's L'Immoraliste and other works inspired by the terrifying impassivity of the African landscape and culture, works which attempt to articulate the restless search by Europeans for something 'other'. Having said that, there is a distracting number of stunningly beautiful vistas to lull the brain into inactivity.