Final scene of The Sheltering Sky, featuring Paul Bowles' monologue

Debra Winger (as Kit Moresby) flees Campbell Scott (George Tunner) and stumbles into a cafe, whereupon she finds Bowles. He asks, "Are you lost..?" Bowles then relates a beautiful thought-piece on mortality. I love the end of this film.
Great French music hall tune too! I added a white fade-in which is not in the original picture...

[@johndoe-nu6kl]

Here because of Neurosis.

[@mikloshoffer282]

Some would say The God Machine.

[@bubbazanetti1527]

Lol the bass line started in my head

[@chrissearle23]

The amazing Paul Bowles. I met him in once in Tangier, a unique mind.

[@johnh23z]

+Chris Searle I met him in 94 in Tangier ... coolest guy on Earth.

[@mrconstable1908]

Chris. You will likely appreciate my art house short video about Tangier. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5CtnoKjp8d1j5o

[@monicaanastasiadis6468]

You met him fascinating

[@newjeffersonian6456]

Try not to pay attention to the words Paul Bowles is saying, just to the tone and texture of his voice . . . wisdom, experience, the acceptance of death as a part of life, of all things as they are. . .

[@krzysztofkosydar4545]

a long long time ago I watched this movie...I forgot why I loved it... watched it again a few days ago and I know why... the monologue of Paul Bowles ..

[@elementengine]

MMMYYY EEYYEEESSS WERE JAAAADDDDDDEEEDDDDDDDDD

[@sagiuls84]

Grazie maestro per la sua immensa arte ❤ Rip

[@anthropophobe]

this astonishing sample was used in NEUROSIS' incredible song "lost"

[@gabrielemureddu6909]

The same sample was used by the God Machine in the opening track of their masterpiece "Scene from a second storey". One of the most underrated alternative albums of the nineties.

[@ANFeuerstahl]

This is a very difficult film which comes from an even more difficult novel. I believe only one in 20,000,000 people can fully understand both.

[@ganyamede1]

Here because of Brandon Lee's last on screen interview.

[@ninjapatman]

Sampled on Ryuichi Sakamoto's "fullmoon" (from "async"), with the quote in other languages as well

[@Vishnu-xn4vx]

Thank You Ryuichi, this is a lesson for all my life

[@yallowrosa]

great Cameo for the author

[@PeterK1000]

Are you lost? Yes. Because we don't know when we will die We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well Yet everything happens only a certain number of times And a very small number, really How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood Some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more Perhaps not even that How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems limitless.

[@arielcollazo9204]

¡Gracias! Por alguna razón más que las obvias, me sigue volviendo este texto al cabo de las décadas, _again and again_...

[@riverstun]

How many more times will you make love... how many more times will you listen to your favorite piece of music?

[@SuperBitchMother]

I will check that anthro!

[@user-rv4qw3xi3c]

ボウルズはアメリカ人らしいポジティブさが皆無 私はボウルズを大好き

[@SlapShotRegatta22]

Bertolucci is a master. This movie, however, was a bit mediocre. The ending though...the ending is magnificent.

[@user-rv4qw3xi3c]

締め括る台詞

[@elijahwilcox6215]

I didn't know this movie existed

[@SuperBitchMother]

Bertolucci, he's quite amazing Elena!

[@user-rv4qw3xi3c]

ボウルズの名言

[@marcinwolczek4314]

Bertolucci to mistrz,prawdziwy mistrz...

[@TheJaviferrol]

The last 30 minutes need to be trimmed down from desert shots

[@user-rv4qw3xi3c]

禅みたい ボウルズの名言は

[@morningtrees2090]

小説には名言がいっぱいあるんだ。

[@DPerez3573]

Ok, I do realize that I'm asking a rather simplistic question. I ran across this film in my youth and saw it in pieces...then I saw the end and it left me completely perplexed. What does this end mean? Why is this ending profound and what does it say about kit?.

[@ANFeuerstahl]

If you have to ask...

[@user-rv4qw3xi3c]

ボウルズは、これを言いたくて、映画を作ったようだ

[@hoeksteen69]

.

[@user-rv4qw3xi3c]

痛々しい夫婦の映画

[@nourmourad4158]

Stupid end for a stupid film.

[@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

Are you lost...motherfucker?

[@pablo.romero]

Ryuichoi Sakamoto sampled this words for his song "Async". It was read in 8 languages in a experimenrtal song. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH3PlaOwqqtjmpo