Sunday, April 18, 2004

I just saw "House of Sand and Fog". What a great movie! Battles for real estate have never been more dramatic. Jennifer Connelly plays a woman who was wrongly evicted from her house, as the county claimed she failed to pay a tax that she didn't even need to pay. But Connelly could have prevented it from happening had she bothered to open her mail! Meanwhile, Ben Kingsley, a former Iranian colonel buys the house at auction and refuses to leave despite learning of Connelly's predicament. I loved the depiction of Kingsley, his wife and his son. Despite his financial stubbornness, it's clear that Kingsley only wants whats best for his family. That makes the devastating events in the last half-hour of the film especially heartbreaking. Go see this movie now!