Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Sindre Kaspersen Italian screenwriter and director Bernardo Bertolucci's eleventh feature film which he co-wrote with Kenyan screenwriter and director Mark Peploe, is an adaptation of a novel from 1949 by American author, translator and composer Paul Bowles (1910-1999). It was shot on location in Morocco, Algeria and Niger and is a UK-Italy co-production which was produced by English producer Jeremy Thomas. It tells the story about Port and Kit Moresby, an American couple whom without having made any plans and with the intention of working out their marriage, travels to North Africa with their single friend Tunner. Subtly and precisely directed by Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, this quietly paced fictional tale which is narrated by expatriate Paul Bowles and from multiple viewpoints, draws an engaging and intimate portrayal of a composer and a playwright's increasing alienation whilst staying in a foreign country and striving to resolve their marital issues. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions, sterling production design by Italian production designers Fernando Scarfiotti and Gianni Silvestri, cinematography by Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and costume design by English costume designer James Acheson, this character-driven, narrative-driven, sensual, literary and dramatic love-story about the unawareness and lack of honesty and communication within a gradually dissolving matrimony where the half-hearted attempts to rationalize a dysfunctional relationship drives a man and a woman to the edge of their sanity, depicts two interrelated studies of character and contains a great score by Japanese composer Rhyuici Sakamoto and American composer Richard Horowitz. This atmospheric, psychological, at times humorous and internal journey where two travellers are heading in the same direction as their marriage, is set against the hot, dry and exhausting Sahara desert during the 1940s and is impelled and reinforced by it's cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, subtle continuity and editing by Italian film editor Gabriella Christiani and the fine acting performances by American actor, director and producer John Malkovich, American actress Debra Winger and supporting acting performances by American actor Campbell Scott in his second feature film role, English actor Timothy Spall and English actress Jill Bennett (1931-1990) in her last feature film role. A lyrical, somewhat romantic and existentialistic road-movie from the early 1990s which gained, among several other awards, the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Vittorio Storaro at the 44th British Academy Film Awards in 1990.

Rodrigo Amaro I'm truly disappointed with this film, not in the sense of throwing something to the screen or cursing everybody involved, but in the sense of almost crying simply because when you heard the names Bertolucci-Winger-Malkovich altogether you want to buy the DVD, buy popcorn and more just to see how wonderful this is and the final result is a big empty in their lives and almost a waste of our time. "The Sheltering Sky" is like a great body without a soul, a tragedy. What's the point of having the most dazzling and beautiful cinematography of all when you don't have a story to tell, don't have something to say and a purpose? Nothing. It knows how to relax your eyes both in a good and bad way; the good way being the most fantastic images and scenarios you'll ever gonna see; in the bad way because after one hour it starts to get boring, tiresome, pointless and it goes nowhere. Again, here's a story of people from the high class world (played by John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott and others) that seems to find a beautiful and intriguing place to live in Morocco, Africa, to finally realize that life's not that easy in places like this. If the main premise of the film was to show the difference between travelers and tourists then what I saw was that travelers are dumber than tourists who simply enjoy all the things of a foreign country and then they'll turn back home (as Winger explains in the beginning tourists go into a journey thinking of returning home right after they got in the new place). The tourists will have bad luck, all kinds of disease, infidelity affairs and other bad things.It is a good film to look at it, its visual, locations, culture, you feel in a different place, but in terms of story it's very empty, with no profundity at all. I expected more from Bertolucci and this film. But when your previous film win 9 Oscars and it's a art and historical masterpiece called "The Last Emperor" is very difficult to quite recover from there, to release something that touches the same grandiosity. "The Sheltering Sky" tries to be an epic but fails by being meaningless, just images and bored talks between characters. I'm not gonna say nothing about the performances because they weren't good neither bad, just too low considering other works. Gladly I haven't bought the DVD, but sometimes I wish because the images presented are so unique and wonderful that you simply have to watch it and try to hold it in your mind, for relaxations purposes. Weak, weak, weak. 4/10

Cosmin Erhan The Sheltering sky was considered a heavy book, heavy as importance, for the so called beat generation...so in my opinion, taking the story of Paul Bowles and adapting it to a movie was a real challenge...despite the simple storyline that everyone notices, the book/movie has deeper meanings...i watched the movie a lot of times and having read the book made me see better the B.Bertolucci hand...trying to create the place for actually an internal bleeding, a deep hurtful feeling, both Bowles and Bertolucci have to use the symbolism of the desert's vanity...and the inner searches go very well with the message of the traveler who refuses to be just a tourist, setting a line to separate the meaningful from the meaningless...READ the book and then be impressed by the adds that Bertolucci makes, just to give you a very personal approach... "You are so alone..."- a beautiful way to end the journey of Port, Kit and Tunner...

G K Those who haven't read the novel will be left bewildered. A married American couple (John Malkovich and Debra Winger) travel through North Africa in search of themselves and the desert, and find their relationship threatened by the vastness of the strange landscapes - and by a lecherous companion.Director Bernardo Bertolucci captures the forbidding beauty of the Sahara quite stunningly, but while the film is utterly ravishing to look at, its characters are stiff, self-regarding and unlikable, their predicament is far from compelling, and the psychological drama of Paul Bowles's novel never quite surfaces.