In a fresh and inventive casting arrangement all three generations of women are played by the same two gifted actresses Fernanda Montenegro and Fernada Torres. ![]() Stretching over almost 60 years, the story’s scope is at once incredibly vast and poignantly focused. Áurea’s daughter Maria is born and a third generation inherits the curse and blessing of life on the sand. They meet Massu, a descendant of a colony of former slaves who helps them survive. When her husband is killed by his own obsession, Áurea and Dona Maria attempt to return to civilization but, as if held back by a greater force, their attempts to forsake the desert are continually foiled. As they struggle desperately to establish a life on the dunes, her husband refuses to give up, even when Áurea tells him she is pregnant. She and her mother, Dona Maria have been forced to come as unwilling participants in her husband’s mad dream to start a new life in the desert. It is 1910 and Áurea finds herself in a virtual wasteland, an expanse of sand as far as she can see. Gorgeously photographed on the white dunes of Brazil’s stunning Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, THE HOUSE OF SAND is both simple and profound, intimate and epic. ![]() Not to be confused with 2003’s THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, THE HOUSE OF SAND is the English title of the Brazilian movie CASA DE AREIA. THE HOUSE OF SAND is the compelling story of three generations of women lead into the desert for their own time of testing. It is a place of both metaphorical and physical hostility. Often in literature, in myth and in the Bible, the desert is the place of challenge, of testing, and of struggle – the landscape of confrontation. The movie’s fatal flaw is a graphic sex scene that should have been avoided, so the movie demands an excessive rating for all ages. Gorgeously shot in Brazil, THE HOUSE OF SAND is languid and meditative in all the right ways, in perfectly paced scenes, into the rhythms of desert life, tracing the women’s journey from exile to embrace. This is a story of survival, hope, fidelity, and love. ![]() When her husband is killed by his obsession, Áurea and Dona Maria attempt to return to civilization but, as if held back by a greater force, their attempts to forsake the desert are continually foiled. As they struggle, her husband refuses to give up, even when Áurea becomes pregnant. She and her mother, Doña Maria, have been forced to join her husband’s mad dream to start a new life in the desert. The movie opens in 1910, where Áurea finds herself in a virtual wasteland, an expanse of sand as far as she can see. Stretching almost 60 years, THE HOUSE OF SAND is a Brazilian movie about three generations of women who live on the sand dunes of a remote desert.
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