Review of The House of Sand (2005) by Prathaban M — 14 Mar 2009
I dont think that the attempt of making an intelectual movie had worked on this time. It is a beautiful landscape, a beautiful photography but an unbalance sequency and screenplay. Kind of absurd by moments and too metaphoric.
Basically it presents a non time movie where the mother force the daughter to live in the middle of the nothing, in a present and future time that doesnt have end, a circle that seems its not going to finish, where everything runs and disapear like sand.
..The story is repeated one more time, but now the mother try to broken that story getting the oportunity to take her daughter out (when I guess this is about thirty and something years old) of the sandy place.
..And the story finished when there is a reconciliations between the mother and daughter, just when this comes back after 30 years to visit her mother and brought her a radio and information of what was happening outside the sand house.
This review of The House of Sand (2005) was written by Prathaban M on 14 Mar 2009.
The House of Sand has generally received positive reviews.
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