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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Vadim Perelman
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Actors:
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Namrata Singh Gujral,
Nasser Faris,
Jonathan Ahdout,
Kia Jam,
Jaleh Modjallal,
Samira Damavandi,
Matthew Simonian,
Jennifer Connelly,
Ben Kingsley,
Ron Eldard,
Frances Fisher,
Kim Dickens,
Shohreh Aghdashloo,
Navi Rawat,
Carlos Gómez
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)100
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Plot Summary:
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Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly feature in the important play Ill fame OF SAND AND FOG as two people fighting terminated the same board. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young old lady struggling with addiction and her husband's departure. Accursed in druggy daze, she fails to check her correspondence, which includes letters threatening to dispossess her. After she is thrown out of the house she grew up in--wrongly, it turns out, so she seeks legal representation--Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) buys the property at auction with the goal of selling it at a stupendous profit so his forebears can live a better life. Behrani, a earlier colonel in the Iranian army, is determined to make his forefathers's move to the United States a moneymaking one--nothing matters more to him than his helpmate and son's well-being. But when he sees Kathy sleeping in a heap mask his stonewall, he knows he is in for a fight.
... Based on the book around Andre Dubus III, Vadim Perelman's directorial debut is a fascinating consider of order in the Shared States. Kathy has no lone to change to to--her ancestor is dead, her economize on has depraved her, and she's too frightened to ask for usurp from her mother or brother. She falls seeking Lester (Ron Eldard), a deputy sheriff who claims to no longer love his helpmeet. And Behrani is so dedicated to his wife (Shohreh Aghidashloo in a riveting exhibit) and son (Jonahtan Ahdout) that he blinds himself to Kathy's dire location. Dwelling-place OF SAND AND FOG is a relentless, thought-provoking accomplish that will linger with audiences lengthy after the film ends.
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House of Sand and Fog
Let House of Sand and Fog tell you a story. A story of hopes as evanescent as the drifting fog, of dreams as unreliable as a structure carelessly built out of sand.
It's a despairing narrative about the capacity we have to destroy our own lives just when we think we're doing the opposite, a story that uses exceptional acting to wrench and twist our emotions. It sends us back to words like tragedy and catharsis, because at its core this film has an inescapable, unflinching fidelity to human truth. It's a story that haunts long after it's seen, not just because we're overpowered by what happens to its characters but because, if we're honest, we see how all of it, even the worst of it, could happen to us.
A film this consuming doesn't get made without great p...
Brilliant, but very upsetting.
This is an excellent film, very well acted, directed and written.
I think that the best way to watch this film is by thinking of it in terms of theatrical tragedy. Only drama can explore these deep emotions and not leave you feeling devastated. The problem here, is that the film is not a play and is so very believable.
However, in the dvd extras one of the actors commented that true tragedy only works if you are 100% immersed in the characters and the story. Therein lies the glory of this fantastic film.
Only please be warned, unless you are a cold emotional fish, this story will hit you hard!! Enjoy.
House of Sand and Fog
Two dreams collide ? that of a recovering alcoholic with an emotional attachment to her parents' home, and an settler hoping to recover the good life ? in an engrossing, well-acted theatre arts that is unbuttoned by its sensational progress.
House of Sand and Fog
If 'stroke-good' movies lift the spirits, what faultlessly is the tempt of 'fancy-bad' movies? Catharsis? Double that our lives aren't as vomit-provoking as the misfortune onscreen? Just as special effects extravaganzas constantly up the ante on ever more elaborate spectacle, downbeat films compete to successively reduce depths ("I see your Mystic River, and move you a 21 Grams"). In more ways than it intends, House Of Sand And Fog hits lull bottom. Stung for not paying a province that she doesn't be beholden to because of, cloistered, unemployed Kathy Niccolo (Connelly) is promptly calculated incorrect of her home. The property is when snapped up at a negotiate price by way of an individual Colonel Behrani (Kingsley), an ex-soldier of the Shah reduced to wo...
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