The Sheltering Sky

Year: 1990

Runtime: 138 mins

Language: English

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

DramaAdventureMoving relationship storiesErotic relationships and desirePowerful poetic and passionate drama

A woman’s dangerous and erotic journey… An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

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