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Evocative as it can be, House of Sand doesn't have enough story or incident to justify the investment in time.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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The House of Sand
Overview
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Director and cast
- Andrucha Waddington Director
- Fernanda Montenegro as Dona Maria/Áurea/Maria
- Fernanda Torres as Áurea (1910-1919) / Maria (1942)
- Ruy Guerra as Vasco de Sá
- Seu Jorge as Massu (1910-1919)
- Luiz Melodia as Massu (1942)
- Enrique Díaz as Luiz (1919)
- Stênio Garcia as Luiz (1942)
- Emiliano Queiroz as Chico do Sal
- João Acaiabe Cast
- Camilla Facundes Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
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.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh
It is a wondrous place, almost of another planet, and more than compensation for the effort to get there.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh
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 into the viewer's consciousness.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh
A visual work of art and its simple story moves as effortlessly as the sands in a forsaken desert in northern Brazil.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
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