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...other hand, Best Actor seems like it will end in a photo finish, with Lost in Translation’s Bill Murray a nose ahead of Sean Penn. I personally felt Ben Kingsley had the performance of the year, and his visceral anguish in House of Sand and Fog was a masterfully controlled performance, especially when contrasted with Penn’s rather blunt stabs at the agony of child loss (slam table here, deliver choked up yelp there...
...familiar. but the two passersby who stopped a bald man last December on the steps of Rockefeller Center in New York City weren't sure who he was. That imperial nose, the batwing ears, those bore- into-your-soul eyes ... "You're a movie star, right?" they asked. Ben Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film, House of Sand and Fog, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi...
...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...
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...