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...Naomi Watts is not exactly a Gray Panther. But like the character she plays in 21 Grams--and like three other featured players in our ensemble: Paul Giamatti, Sean Astin and Shohreh Aghdashloo--she has been abruptly thrust into the spotlight after years of scrambling to make...
...SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO -- HOUSE OF SAND...
There is something inexplicably wounded in her eyes, something wary and frightened in the way she meets the world. As Nadi, Shohreh Aghdashloo, 51, is the delicate fulcrum of civility on which the hostility of House of Sand and Fog is balanced. She cannot avoid the tragedy that envelops her proud husband (Ben Kingsley) and a careless, clueless young woman (Jennifer Connelly) as they wrangle over the eponymous dwelling. But through her serene, subtle and heartbreaking performance, she does steal the film...
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG Directed by Vadim Perelman Starring Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo...
...would normally go for drama. But that reckons without the strength of the characters Andre Dubus III created for his novel or the detailed care with which writer-director Perelman has brought them to the screen in his first feature. The minute we meet them all (including Iranian actress Aghdashloo, who is great as the colonel's timorous, sweet-souled wife), we sense that we're in the presence of darkly fated lives...