Seu Jorge,
Luiz Melodia,
Enrique Díaz,
Stênio Garcia,
Emiliano Querioz
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Three generations of women struggle to make lives for themselves and their families in the desert wastes of Northern Brazil in a drama from filmmaker Andrucha Waddington. In 1910, Vasco de Sá (Ruy Gue... read more
DVD Release Date: December 12, 2006
Stats: 235 reviews
a hypnotic epic starring the wonderful fernanda montenegro and her real-life daughter, the film follows 3 generations of women for 60 odd years trapped in a magnificent but forbidding desert environment of northern brazil. a meditative experience in some ways reminiscent of tesh... read more
[font=Century Gothic]In "House of Sand," it is 1910 and Aurea(Fernanda Torres) is pregnant and married to Vasco(Ruy Guerra), an older man who abuses her and drags her and her mother Maria(Fernanda Montenegro) to a remote area of Brazil where he has purchased land on the edge of t... read more
good & real about life & contentment & making the best of your current situation - home is where you are as in the expression "make yourself at home"... beautiful sand & sea sceneries... Fernanda Montenegro was fantastic in all 3 roles...
While beautiful cinematographically, there wasn't much to this movie. And the sudden jumps in time and multiple-role characters were a bit annoying, even if they were meant to be symbolic.
Foreign, Spanish. This is a very good film. The scenery is very unique and is quite beautiful. The story is very good and I would highly recommend it.
I liked this, but I thought it would be better. Once it got into the story and picked up, I enjoyed it a lot better.
Its slow moving and the scenery is all the same. But the ending is worth the wait. Beautiful female actresses
Great film, the way it looks is beautiful and the story is very good, but it looked like something out of The Twilight Zone.
This is a superior film when it stands on its setting, which provides a powerful backbone to the film. Ultimately you are taken in by the sheer force of the landscape; however, I felt that some of the characters were underdeveloped and the two main leads, the mother and daughter... read more
Cinematographer Ricardo della Rosa ... has created images of rare beauty in the midst of terrain so spectacularly strange that it sometimes seems to speak a language all its own.
It is a wondrous place, almost of another planet, and more than compensation for the effort to get there. Full Review
Visually dazzling, epic in its sweep and deeply romantic in its sensibility, The House of Sand is one of those films whose images and ideas linger long after the lights come on, having been burned int... Full Review
It ends up like an impressionist painting without a subject, one we stare at longingly, waiting for its purpose to emerge. Full Review
Sensual, dreamlike, both intimate and epic, The House of Sand is a cinematic tour de force.
Both Waddington and Soarez understand the impotence of words in this dusty setting, or the potency of just the right ones. Full Review
The tone can be hypnotic and the pacing requires some patience; just give in to the film's rhythms and you'll find that you're different walking out than you were walking in.
A memorable, haunting experience for moviegoers' eyes and hearts. Full Review
Rigorously structured, but with the power to shake you to the heart. Full Review
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