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6.5An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Released: 1990-10-25138 minDir: Bernardo BertolucciDrama, AdventureBudget: $25.0MBox office: $2.1M
Cast
- Debra Winger as Kit
- John Malkovich as Port
- Campbell Scott as Tunner
- Jill Bennett as Mrs. Lyle
- Timothy Spall as Eric Lyle
- Eric Vu-An as Belqassim
Themes
- adultery
- africa
- sahara desert
- extramarital affair
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
14,579 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
45%
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 BAFTA Award9 wins & 8 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- French
- Based on
- The Sheltering Sky
- Main subject
- liberty
- Director
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Screenwriter
- Paul Bowles
- Composer
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Producer
- Jeremy Thomas
- Cinematographer
- Vittorio Storaro
- Narrative location
- Sahara
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 623419
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1990-10-25
- film editor
- Gabriella Cristiani
- title
- The Sheltering Sky
- after a work by
- Paul Bowles
- costume designer
- James Acheson
- distributed by
- Netflix
- set in period
- 1940s
- set in environment
- desert
- review score
- 45%
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