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Vincent Canby, New York Times: A long, beautifully modulated cry of despair. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A disappointingly reductive adaptation of Paul Bowles's first novel. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The book is so complete, so deep and so self-contained that it shuts the movie out. Bertolucci shows us the outsides and the surfaces, and a person seeing this movie without having read the book might ask what it is about. Read more
Time Out: As you'd expect, it's a big, handsome film, rich and strange in psychological depths and eroticism. Malkovich and Winger play woundingly well. Read more
Hal Hinson, Washington Post: [A] frustrating, monotonously obscure movie. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Bowles's gentle, avian features, the obvious wisdom of his years and his distinctive presence are practically worth the price of admission. Read more