The Sheltering Sky

Synopsis

In 1947, an intellectual American composer and his writer wife travel to North Africa seeking to rekindle their dying ten-year marriage by venturing deep into the merciless, hallucinatory Sahara desert as 'travelers rather than tourists', succumbing to typhoid fever, bedouin caravans, and existential oblivion under the indifferent blue sky. Bernardo Bertolucci and Paul Bowles' BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning desert odyssey starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger with Vittorio Storaro's camera and Ryuichi Sakamoto's score.