A wealthy couple and one of their rich friends travel to North Africa. They say they're travelers, not tourists, but they're oblivious to the dangers. They're roughing it, traveling by bus or train and hitching a ride with a young man and his domineering mother. That guy and his mother---he keeps begging for money because his mother won't give him any---really seem more on the ball than the three Americans. At least they have their own transportation.
A love triangle forms. Then thing go really, really bad. I won't give it away, but it shows the importance of not going anywhere you can't get an ambulance.
Some amazing scenery. I can see why they wanted to go. You had to go there yourself back then. You couldn't see it in the movies.
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. I don't know if he used any of the same locations Pasolini did in Oedipus Rex. Like Pasolini's movie, it has a pandemic tie-in.
Based on the 1949 novel by Paul Bowles who appears in the movie as a narrator.
Debra Winger and John Malkovich, Campbell Scott. With Jill Bennett and Timothy Spall.
Available on the Criterion Channel.
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