2003 · drama
House of Sand and Fog
Directed by Vadim Perelman2h 6m2003
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
Our read: House of Sand and Fog (2003) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
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