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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
Based on a bestseller by Andre Dubus III, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, the “House of Sand and Fog” is a brilliantly acted, remarkably directed film debut by the Ukrainian commercial and musicvideo veteran Vadim Perelman.
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community is showing the film at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington on Friday, April 2 at 8 p.m.
Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Shohreh Aghdashloo, Best Documentary and Best Music (original score), the film won an Oscar for Best Documentary.
Jennifer Connelly stars as Kathy Nicolo, a troubled California Bay area housecleaner who learns that she has been evicted from the comfortable, ramshackle beach-block home she inherited from her father.
Due to a bureaucratic error and to ignoring notices for $500 in back taxes she didn’t actually owe, Nicolo, a self-destructive recovering alcoholic, has lost possession of her beachfront home in Northern California. She hires a lawyer to regain ownership of the property, but the city has already put the house on the block, and it is quickly snapped up by Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), an Iranian and former colonel in the Shah’s air force who is desperate to reinstate the honor, and fortunes, of his family.
The fascination of “House of Sand and Fog” is the way that it twists and turns. Neither Nicolo nor Behrani, ironically, has much love for the house.
Behrani plans to sell it as quickly as he bought it (at four times the price), and for Nicolo it’s less a nest
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