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Writers:
Elena Soarez (screenplay)
Luiz Carlos Barreto (story) ...
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Release Date:
13 May 2005 (Brazil) more
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
9 wins & 23 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Golden Age via Andrucha Waddington's 'Lope'
(From ioncinema. 13 October 2009)
Tff 2006: Non-Competitive Selections
(From ioncinema. 18 March 2006)
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A cinema-graphic poem more (31 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Fernanda Montenegro | ... | Dona Maria / Áurea / Maria | |
| Fernanda Torres | ... | Áurea / Maria | |
| Ruy Guerra | ... | Vasco de Sá | |
| Seu Jorge | ... | Massu - 1910-1919 | |
| Stênio Garcia | ... | Luiz - 1942 | |
| Luiz Melodia | ... | Massu - 1942 | |
| Enrique Díaz | ... | Luiz - 1919 | |
| Emiliano Queiroz | ... | Chico do Sal | |
| João Acaiabe | ... | Pai de Massu | |
| Camilla Facundes | ... | Maria - 1919 | |
| Haroldo Costa | ... | Capataz | |
| Jorge Mautner | ... | Cientista | |
| Nelson Jacobina | ... | Cientista | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Zumbi Bahia | ... | Carregador Vasco #1 | |
| Jefferson de Almeida Barbosa | ... | Mirinho (1919) | |
| Wadson Martins Costa | ... | Mirinho - 1942 | |
| Urias de Oliveira Filho | ... | Carregador Vasco 2 | |
| Guilherme Júnior | ... | Pescador Fogueira | |
| Carlos Henrique Nascimento | ... | Pescador do Entreposto | |
| Fernando Torres | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Also Known As:
House of Sand (International: English title)
The House of Sand (USA) (DVD box title)
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Rated R for some graphic sexuality.
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USA:115 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Argentina:13 | USA:R | Hong Kong:III | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | New Zealand:R13 | France:Unrated | Singapore:R21 | Brazil:16
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Director Waddington wrote the two lead roles especially for his wife Ms. Torres and his mother-in-law, Ms. Montenegro. more
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Factual errors: The movie takes pains to make reference to real events. However, the location marker erected for the scientific party at the total solar eclipse shows the wrong date. It should be 29.05.1919. more
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Prelude Opus 28, nš 15 more
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Like "2001: A Space Odyssey", lots of people (critics included) are undoubtedly struggling to get a handle on this film. Here is an odyssey of another dimension, through shifting sands of time and perspective.
On one hand, the film is surrealistic -- it leaves many questions unanswered. It seems to purposely throw the unbelievable into our faces, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez in "100 Years of Solitude". For instance, how do the stranded women survive? What do they eat? It's a Robinson Crusoe epic without explanations.
On the other hand, the film is meticulously honest with fact and detail. The eclipse portrayed in the film was in fact observed in northern Brazil on 29 May 1919. The 7 successful photographic plates from the Brazilian expedition were fundamental in proving Einstein's theory of general (as opposed to special) relativity. Also, contrary to what another IMDb commenter has incorrectly characterized as "pseudo-scientific", one of the space-time implications of Einstein's theory is very accurately alluded to in the film.
We as viewers are left to sort out the broadly surreal from the minutely exact. We must decode the poetry of this film for ourselves. And, as with poetry, appreciation for this film will likely grow with reflection and repeated viewings.
"House of Sand" is a little jewel with hidden facets. See it on a wide screen with a good sound system to fully appreciate it.