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Les Lauréats d’un Academy Award Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) et Jennifer Connelly (Un homme d’exception) offrent des interprétations époustouflantes dans la peau de deux étrangers qu’opposent leurs conceptions du rêve américain et déterminés à se battre pour leurs espoirs. Ce qui avait commencé par un conflit à propos d’un bungalow décrépit se transforme en une confrontation qui propulse toutes les personnes concernées vers une conclusion renversante. « Une fin surprenante qui vous laissera abasourdi » (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Academy Awards winners Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) delivers stunning performances as two strangers whose conflicting pursuits of the American Dream lead to a fight for their hopes at any cost. What begins as a struggle over a rundown bungalow spirals into a clash that propels everyone involved toward a shocking resolution. “ A surprise ending that will leave you breathless!”
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
126 min
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.