Composer Sakamoto won an Academy Award for his score of Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE LAST EMPEROR, but his score for THE SHELTERING SKY (for which he won a Golden Globe) is a true prize: a plaintive, resolute work that provides depth and foundation to a film that was divisive to critics and audiences alike. Based on the homonymous 1949 novel by Paul Bowles, the epic and sensual THE SHELTERING SKY stars Debra Winger and John Malkovich as a married couple Kitt and Port, who travel to North Africa in hopes of reigniting their relationship. When their friend, played by Campbell Scott, begins a love affair with Kit, culture and passion collide.