La Luna (1979 film)
1979
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Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 1991 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 1991 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Production Design 1991 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1991 · Nominated
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 45% of 29 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads: " The Sheltering Sky puts its talented stars at odds with a misguided and largely unsatisfying adaptation of potentially unfilmable source material." [1]
New York Film Critics Circle Awards. 1990 Winner NYFCC Award. Best Cinematographer. Vittorio Storaro. 1990 Nominee NYFCC Award. Best Director. Bernardo Bertolucci. Tied with Barbet Schroeder for Reversal of Fortune (1990).
The Sheltering Sky: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. With Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett. An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
- (14K)
- Adventure, Drama
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1990-12-12
Dec 14, 1990 · In The Sheltering Sky, Bernardo Bertolucci’s forbidding and visually hypnotic adaptation of Paul Bowles’ 1949 novel, two restless, globe-trotting American intellectuals, Port and Kit Moresby...
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In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them.
The Sheltering Sky. Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci. Novel: Paul Bowles. The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions leads both only deeper into despair.
