The only thing left to Kathy
Niccolo, a drug addict rehabilitated and abandoned by her husband, is the
house his father left her when he died. But an apparent delay in a payment of
taxes will make her loose it.
Massoud Behrani, a former
Iranian colonel who had to flee to America years ago, buys the house with the
idea of fixing it and then selling it at a better price. But Kathy is not willing
to see how he takes away all that is left for her and will make the impossible
to recover it, as, according to her, it belongs to her.
The film begins with a nice rhythm: you have Behrani to be hated for having taken the house from Kathy who you like
for giving up drugs after her husband abandoned her.
But the situation seems to get
complicated when you realize that Berahni has two jobs to support his family:
as it often happens, the hated and loved characters somehow change their roles and the house seems
to be good for any of them. The film becomes hard, the atmosphere heavy, sad,
but the story has us totally trapped.
Ben Kingsley, Jennifer
Connelly and Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian, caught us with their excellent
performances. However, there is a point in this story in which the situation
for the characters keeps on coming even harder and harder.
It is as if things were not
hard enough and somehow they get even worse. The problem is not the hard parts of
the story: we know before seeing it that "House of Sand and Fog" is not a
film that will allow us to relax. However, that is out of bounderies. The direction the
story takes drives you to keep on suffering like the characters
in the movie.
Director: Vadim Perelman
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