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House of Sand and Fog

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Chris L
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2024
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Read this when you are in a good mood. It will not lift your spirits, but it is well written and very real.
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Dave Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Great performances
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2024
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very thought provoking movie. Highly recommend
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Andrew Lynch
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent film from start to finish
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2016
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Dude this is an excellent film,it may have a "hard to believe story" & plot line but it is great. A girl battling alcohol addiction had made a mistake by nit opening a piece of mail with them trying to take her house for taxes. Ben Kingsly is a war hero or criminal on the run from his high society in his Country. He comes to America to make a profit by buying her house & flip it. Really gets going from there. There is a cop who gives up his family to be with the girl who lost her home (Jennifer Connoly) befriends this cop,as a heated passionate relationship is sparked they get 1 bad blow after another. The cop threatens Ben Kingsly & his family,so Kingsly has him kicked off the force & badge removed. Connoly tries to commit suicide,she steps on a giant nail & the house is the cause of it all. The cop goes and threatens Kingsly to sign the house over to the original owner. The son of Kingsly pulls a gun on the cop who has a gun,right on the police dept. Steps. So the cops see a kid pulling a gun on a cop,they shoot Kingsly's son. Hell of a movie here,it ends with Kingsly killing himself & his wife. The cop goes to jail for attempting & trying to persuede them into selling the house then impersonating a cop,a child being shot. This is just 1 twist turn after another. An excellent film that anyone would enjoy if they like craxy,possibly real scenario films. Intense drama but with action that's in your face this film has a spirit and a dark underbelly. More of a question of "what would you do" in that scenario. Go get the film.
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Earl Hazell
4.0 out of 5 stars A jazz symphony of tragic irony
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2005
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Ben Kingsley had so much competition the year he was nominated for an Oscar for this movie that I cannot honestly say he was robbed. But I can say that if the Academy actually decided to make it a tie and give him one as well as whoever won (don't remember), I would feel as if justice was served.

THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG is a study in irony, as well as one of the most incredible morality plays I have ever seen. The integrity of Ben Kingsley's character, an Iranian General now immigrant in the United States with his spoiled, often materialistic and strangely immature but loving, dutiful wife, gives a marriage that has a window into another culture unlike anything I have seen before. One could believe intellectually that Iran has much of the same class issues that Americans or Europeans have, but not actually believe it in the heart until seeing this. How he and his family crash headlong into the depressed narcissism, immature irresponsibility, and naturally violent tendencies of these representatives of white American culture in the movie, and how each actor shows just how completely American lives are often best defined by the lack of true love in them, is shocking, ironic, disturbing, and somehow strangely redemptive by the movie's shocking end.

This movie hurts before it heals. But oh, how it heals the human soul.
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5.0 out of 5 stars No Words Can Describe
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2004
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I was not so enthusiastic about seeing this movie because of the "curse" that seems to haunt the genre - that being good acting, but a questionable film as a whole ("Monster's Ball," "In the Bedroom," etc...). The fact is that these movies feel like they were created with the soul purpose of winning Oscars thus a lot of the magic falls deaf on the viewer. I approached "House of Sand and Fog" with this same mentality, expecting a good acting job, but a boring film; however, I am happy to report that this stereotype fell flat on its face. I have never read the book and so I did not know what to expect, but what I got was twist after twist that took me on a whirlwind flight of beauty and pain. At first, the movie seemed a little silly (how Jennifer's character behaved was a little over the top and selfish) and boring, but it morphed into a simply magnificent tale of love and loss. The really great thing though was the plot twist that occurred and how the story throws one back and forth (do I love this character or hate him/her). It is not until the end that one can even begin to digest what has happened.
Not only was the storyline fantastic, but the acting was phenomenal! Jennifer and Ben were simply fantastic, but the real "show stealer" was newcomer Shohreh Aghdashloo; oh my she was so wonderful and heartbreaking. By the end I can promise that you will cry (at least inside) more than you ever have for a movie; the people seem so real and personal to you (every one of them). I am absolutely appalled that this film did not pick up a single Oscar and very few nominations!
This film is a wonderful Drama and so much more. I have never been so drawn in by a cast and story before. I would recommend this to any "Art" loving individual that appreciates the fragileness of life and the human spirit. I do not usually write long reviews but this film deserves pages and pages of praise. Just watch and you will understand that the hype is well deserved.
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LORETA
5.0 out of 5 stars EXTRAORDINARIO Y CONMOVEDOR DRAMA. UNA GRAN PELICULA. 100% RECOMENDABLE
Reviewed in Mexico on October 29, 2017
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Extraordinaria Película. El dedicado padre de una familia de origen iraní, un encumbrado general que debio huir tras la caida del Sha perdiéndolo todo, tiene que abrirse paso en los Estados Unidos para recuperar la posición de su familia y lograr que esta vuelva a elevarse socialmente, lo han logrado con su hija salvando las apariencias, pero su único hijo varón debe asegurar su camino a la Universidad. El recuerdo de su antigua propiedad familiar de playa en el Mar Caspio y la oportunidad que ofrece el remate de una encantadora casita con posibles ganancias futuras mediante la especulación, se combinan con la historia de depresión de la antigua dueña y el odio xenofóbico del protector de ésta, un violento policía anglosajón. El aferre inmobiliario de las partes provoca finalmente la tragedia, con un terrible desenlace que te estremecerá.
Lección: Sabiduría es desprendimiento.
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jconsult
5.0 out of 5 stars A voir ne serait-ce que pour Jennifer Connelly
Reviewed in France on April 18, 2013
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La belle actrice Jennifer Connelly nous réjouit dans ce rôle tourmenté face à un Ben Kingsley formidable et retort et la gentillesse de l'actrice iranienne Shohreh Aghdashloo qui apporte une graine de douceur dans cette confrontation brutale.
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Mary
5.0 out of 5 stars Amarga y deprimente
Reviewed in Spain on February 23, 2013
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Excelente film nominado a 3 oscars, lo que empieza como una simple disputa por una casa desembocará en una tragedia de proporciones épicas.
Algunos ya la han calificado como una de las peliculas más deprimentes de la historia.
El final te hiela la sangre.
Si os gustan los dramas intensos está puede ser su pelicula.
Muy recomendable.
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Hiro
5.0 out of 5 stars very good movie
Reviewed in Japan on February 18, 2016
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somehow it seems this movie is not so popular especially here in japan, nobody seems to know about it.
but this movie is a great one. definitely worth watching it.
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KaleHawkwood
4.0 out of 5 stars This old house
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2022
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A young woman wakes to a traumatic day ~ due to an oversight on her part, the beloved house she's called home all her life is to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, who turns out to be a proud Iranian political exile who has fled to the US with his wife and teenage son. One of the three men who give her notice to quit her home takes pity on her, and offers to help.
A brief outline of the story told in this strangely hypnotic and most unusual of films, an intense, gravely tragic debut by director Vadim Perelman, a Ukrainian living in the States.
The soulful Jennifer Connolly is very good as the abruptly homeless woman Kathy, Ben Kingsley is on powerful, formidable form as Massoud Behrani, the patriarch who can't and won't give up his new house on the hill, and the wonderful Iranian star actress Shohreh Aghdashloo plays his kindly, slightly sheepish wife Nadi, with first-time actor Jonathan Ardout doing well as their sweetly dutiful son Esmail.
Ron Eldard is excellent as Kathy's knight in rather rusty armour, whom we discover has problems of his own.
I know of no other film quite like it, certainly not from Hollywood. In the useful bonus features, the original novel's author Andre Dubus III says how delighted he was with the adaptation, as well as the cast. There are a few difficult to believe aspects of the plot, but the whole thing is done with such originality and care that it hardly matters.
Once seen, never forgotten.
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