Port Moresby

The Sheltering Sky (1990)

Actors: Mohamed Benhmamane (miscellaneous crew), Ryûichi Sakamoto (composer), Bernardo Bertolucci (writer), Tom Novembre (actor), Jeremy Thomas (producer), Bernardo Bertolucci (director), Debra Winger (actress), Timothy Spall (actor), Campbell Scott (actor), Sotigui Kouyaté (actor), John Malkovich (actor), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Carolyn De Fonseca (actress), Suzanne Durrenberger (miscellaneous crew), Maurice Binder (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions leads both only deeper into despair.

Keywords: 1940s, adultery, american-abroad, arab, author-cameo, autobiographical, bar, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bicycle
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A woman's dangerous and erotic journey...

Quotes:

[first lines]::Port Moresby: Well, terra firma.::Tunner: We're probably the first tourists they've had since the war.::Kit Moresby: Tunner, we're not tourists. We're travelers.::Tunner: Oh. What's the difference?::Port Moresby: A tourist is someone who thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner.::Kit Moresby: Whereas a traveler might not come back at all.::Tunner: You mean *I'm* a tourist.::Kit Moresby: Yes, Tunner. And I'm half and half.

Tunner: You've been to North Africa before, Port. Kit and I will just follow your plan.::Port Moresby: My only plan is, I have no plan.

Kit Moresby: Other people's dreams are so dull.::Port Moresby: Kit has days when everything in the world is merely a sign for something else. A white Mercedes can't just simply be a white Mercedes. It must have a secret meaning about the whole of life. Everything is an omen. Nothing can just be what it is.

Kit Moresby: Oh, Tunner, stop trying to be interesting. On you it looks terrible. And you're too good-looking.

Tunner: Do you and Port ever... share the same room?::Kit Moresby: Tunner, when you travel for months on end, you have to set it up this way. But if you're talking about sex, the first rule of marriage is never to confuse it with sleep.

Kit Moresby: Now we're going to have to choose between two tortures: taking the train or driving with them.

Kit Moresby: Champagne yes, philosophy no.

Port Moresby: You know, if Tunner didn't take such long siestas, I'd never be alone with you. I think he's in love with you.::Kit Moresby: Port, don't be silly.::Port Moresby: Sillier things have happened. The way he hangs around making inane conversation, the way he looks at you when he fingers his DDT can...::Kit Moresby: What else?::Port Moresby: Oh, the ferocity with which he counts your luggage.::Kit Moresby: Oh, he counts yours too.::Port Moresby: It's not the same.

Kit Moresby: Someday they're gonna kick the French out of this country.::Port Moresby: Well, with trousers like that, who can blame them?

Tunner: Do you think, uh, Port suspects something?::Kit Moresby: I think he knows, but he doesn't know that he knows.