The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
3 connections found
View:
3 connections, in both directions
What critics compared The Sheltering Sky to
It often recalls the resolution of Berlotucci’s The Sheltering Sky , perhaps not in specific practice (Pollack doesn’t cameo in the same way as Paul Bowles did in that film, and his narration is more specific to the tale rather than providing it a gorgeous coda), but it’s astonishing in own right, capturing the language and tone of the book while using its detail to enhance our perception of the characters’ deepest thoughts.
In a recent interview with The Guardian , Hammer revealed that Guadagnino showed him a few minutes of Debra Winger in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky (1990) to inspire him for this scene, and that was clearly an ideal choice.
(Another Bertolucci technique; think of the opening shot in The Sheltering Sky, when Kit and Port emerge from behind a complex wooden structure in the desert.)
The 63-year-old Bernardo Bertolucciâs ("Last Tango in Paris"/"Before the Revolution"/"The Sheltering Sky") playful erotic drama The Dreamers is adapted from the 1988 novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance by English author and film critic Gilbert Adair, a book inspired by Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles.
As the film proceeds, the favoring of mainstream movie references extends to Bertolucci's own oeuvre: the Paris flat reminds me of settings in The Conformist, the incest evokes Before the Revolution and Luna, Theo's Maoist baggage takes us back to The Last Emperor, a desert tent in the siblings' flat alludes to The Sheltering Sky, and Matthew's espousal of nonviolence suggests Little Buddha.