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The Sheltering Sky
ITALY · 1990

The Sheltering Sky

Bernardo Bertolucci
existential ennui post-war displacement marital deterioration cultural alienation mortality and meaning
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Synopsis

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

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The Sheltering Sky is the movie that made me want to travel. It’s a very melancholic movie, but there’s something about the way that Bertolucci shot the desert that is absolutely mind-blowing. The scale, the human fragility in front of nature, the sense of lost love—it’s a movie that had a very deep impact on me as a teenager. A very important movie.
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