house of sand (DVD)
At its best, film transports us to an entirely different place for a couple of hours and makes us forget our troubles. Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington?s film HOUSE OF SAND takes us to an entirely alien landscape and immerses us in the lives of two women with problems much larger than ours. Beginning in 1910, pregnant Aurea (Fernanda Torres, wife of Waddington) arrives in Maranhao--a region of northern Brazil characterized by vast areas of white sand?with her older husband, Vascao, who wrongly...