Word: kingsley
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...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...
...Office Gifts The Lord is back, along with a brilliant Ben Kingsley and a saintly Julia Roberts...
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG Directed by Vadim Perelman Starring Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo...
Kathy (Connelly) is a woman in disarray. She's a recovering drug addict who cleans houses for a living and--a fatal flaw--lets her mail pile up unopened. Colonel Behrani (Kingsley), late of the Shah's Iranian air force, is her opposite. He's got it all totally, tightly together. He has one job on a road-construction crew, another as a convenience-store clerk. And he is, by hook or crook, eventually going to give his family an American life comparable in privilege to the one they enjoyed in the old country. Specifically, that means a house near...
Connelly's Kathy may be flaked out, but she has the kind of self-destructive strength such people can muster when they are fighting for the shreds of their history, their last hope of respectability. Kingsley's work as the colonel is simply astonishing, just possibly the performance of the year. He's a prissy, legalistic sort of man who feels that his hope of claiming a corner of the American Dream is being savaged by a crazy lady. And his growing rage, made the more terrible by his effort to control it, is harrowing to behold...