Áurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having for female company only her mother Maria. She is pregnant and wants a way out of that arid place. But leaving is difficult and, somehow, she still hopes to find happiness there. The film follows these two lives for three generations, including Áurea's daughter.... (Full plot summary below)
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Áurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having for female company only her mother Maria. She is pregnant and wants a way out of that arid place. But leaving is difficult and, somehow, she still hopes to find happiness there. The film follows these two lives for three generations, including Áurea's daughter.
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| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersIn that instant, Montenegro makes Waddington's themes as crystalline as the sand under each woman's feet, the quiet passion pulsing through the actress so stirring and strong she almost stopped my heart. |
| Miami HeraldMarta BarberIn House of Sand, shifting sands are not a cliché; they provide the essential emotional and visual elements that make this film memorable. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMontenegro, the star of "Central Station," and her daughter make a remarkable pair. They hold your attention even when the emptily portentous story does not. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...a part of a classic art-house tradition, that of the starkly beautiful yet chilly movie that haunts the memory without compelling any particular attention. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThere's poetry in the revelation that the whole film was inspired by one photograph of a lonely shack standing against entropy. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinCinematographer Ricardo della Rosa ... has created images of rare beauty in the midst of terrain so spectacularly strange that it sometimes seems to speak a language all its own. |
| Premiere MagazineAaron HillisThis quietly seductive elegy sweeps through six decades with a seamless sense of topographical texture and spatial editing... [a] gorgeous tapestry. |
| Slant MagazineNick SchagerAttuned to both the flowing passage of time and the charged silence between people. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenBrazilians live Spartan lives culturally as far from Rio as you can get. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceDisregards the political shifts of Brazil's history by isolating the sprawling narrative from the rest of the nation, so that nothing can distract the director from his finicky composing |
