House of Sand (Casa de Areia), by the Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington from a screenplay by Elena Soarez, is a woman's picture, set in a masculine -- indeed, a heroic -- landscape which dwarfs ...
Quick survey of all married men: Is it your heart's desire to move to a remote desert outpost with your wife and mother-in-law? Didn't think so. In Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington's film "The ...
In 1910 a fanatical Brazilian settler drags his pregnant wife (Fernanda Torres) and her mother (Fernanda Montenegro) to his new patch of land, a sandy spot in northerly Maranhao, and despite the ...