The Sheltering Sky
A woman's dangerous and erotic journey...
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Release Date
10/25/1990Runtime
138 minsOverview
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$25,000,000Revenue
$2,075,084Homepage
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A languid, increasingly disquieting portrait of a marriage unraveling across the vast emptiness of the Sahara, where exotic wanderlust curdles into existential dread.
Mood
MelancholicWistfulContemplativeUnsettling
Themes
IdentityIsolationMortality
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
PainterlyDesaturatedNaturalistic
Structure
Linear
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Sexual content
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