The physical, emotional and cosmic unite in Andrucha Waddington's powerful "The House of Sand." Pic magnificently renders a fresh view of life on planet Earth. Film's masterful pace, structure and ...

Reportedly, Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington (Me You Them) designed his new feature House Of Sand specifically around his wife Fernanda Torres and her mother Fernanda Montenegro. Watching the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The brightest performance is by Ben Kingsley, playing Massoud an ex Iranian Air Force man who was ...

Brazilian filmmaker Andrucha Waddington has not made a feature-length work of fiction since 2000's Me You Them, a blunt and desolate tale about a blunt and desolate mother who loves whom she can and ...

There’s a fine line between artistic ambition and pretension. In his new film The House of Sand, director Andrucha Waddington toes that line for the first hour; but with a sudden jump in time and a ...

Jennifer Connelly in House of Sand and Fog. House of Sand and Fog is a gloomfest from first to last. Writer-director Vadim Perelman, adapting the novel by Andre Dubus III, has a much greater affinity ...

Taking place over six decades in the vast, dusty hinterlands of Brazil’s northern deserts, House of Sand is nothing if not expansive. Filling this canvas to great if occasionally confusing effect are ...

HISTORY IS WRITTEN with land and bloodusually the blood of landowners being displaced by newer immigrants. It’s not a theme most Americans want to dwell on (having generally been the winner in such ...