The House of Sand (2005)

Original title

Casa de Areia

Directed by

Andrucha Waddington

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother and her daughter are abandoned in a remote coastal area of northern Brazil. The film watches them survive and adapt to the harsh sandy landscape over many years.

slow-burnmelancholicvisually lushdreamlikecontemplativelonelyatmosphericintimate

What happens

The House of Sand (Portuguese: Casa de Areia) is a 2005 Brazilian film directed by Andrucha Waddington. It stars real life mother and daughter Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres. The House of Sand was filmed entirely on the coast of northern Brazil, inside Lençóis Maranhenses National Park. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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