Beginning in 1910, the film tells the story of three generations of women living in the desert in Maranh‹o, in northern Brazil. Starring Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) and her daughter Fernanda Torres, the film is "visually dazzling, epic in its sweep and deeply romantic in its sensibility, [it] is one of those films whose images and ideas linger long after the lights come on, having been burned into the viewer's consciousness." (Washington Post) "Sensual, dreamlike, both intimate and epic, The House of Sand is a cinematic tour de force." (Philadelphia Inquirer) More at sonyclassics.com/houseofsand
2006, color, 1 hour 43 minutes, Brazil