Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington’s House of Sand is “a woman’s picture set in a masculine—indeed, a heroic—landscape,” said James Bowman in The New York Sun. In its opening scene, the landscape dwarfs the people struggling across the wild and desolate sands of Maranhao state in Brazil’s equatorial north. The year is 1910, and the little band of travelers has come more than 2,000 miles by foot and donkey. But while the men have come as a result of restless ambition
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