The House of Sand (Casa de Areia) Critic Reviews

Visually dazzling, epic in its sweep and deeply romantic in its sensibility, The House of Sand is one of those films whose images and ideas linger long after the lights come on, having been burned into the viewer's consciousness.Read the full review

At first House of Sand may seem like a stark tale of survival, but a surprisingly lush and colorful romance blossoms in its bleak and gorgeous desert setting.Read the full review

As original as it is lovely.Read the full review

Magnificently renders a fresh view of life on planet Earth.Read the full review

It's a grand outdoor spectacle (the only real interiors are within tents, and those are hard to come by) and a perfectly juicy melodrama.Read the full review

House Of Sand is a gorgeous piece of cinema, but by the end, it just dries up and blows away.Read the full review

The House of Sand's director, Andrucha Waddington, lays on the Awesome Visual Poetry and throws in a welter of story gimmicks, but it's all a bit too fancifully arid.Read the full review