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Bernardo Bertolucci: Sheltering Sky
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Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky (1990), adapted from the 1949 novel by Paul Bowles, is another film whose time has come belatedly. It was only minor success in America and many critics disliked it, finding it boring and mistaking it for apolitical. Claretta Tonetti has written in some detail about this. For example, Pauline Kael complained about miscasting and spoke for many when she quipped that the characters traveled “deep into monotony.”
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Little Buddha is the last of three Bertolucci films shot in exotic surroundings. In The Last Emperor (1987) the camera drooled over the sumptuous architectural detail and ceremonial ritual of Peking's Forbidden City as it unfolded the story of China's last dynasty, while in The Sheltering Sky (1990) the colours and moods of rolling North African desert scorch the eye.
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Luna artfully explored Oedipal dynamics, foregrounding the Freudian concerns present throughout Bertolucci's films, while The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man showed his ability to create a small-scale gem. Bertolucci then created his largest canvas work to date, The Last Emperor. Since The Last Emperor, Bertolucci has taken chances, making films big and small, from his rapturous adaptation of Paul Bowles's novel The Sheltering Sky to Besieged, produced for television and shot with hand-held cameras and almost without dialogue.
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