hphillips

Jim Carrey is truly outstanding, as is Kate Winslet -the supporting actors are all up to the same great performances as Carey and WInslet.Like "Adaptation" the point gets repeated too many times, but at least in this movie it's not as repetitive as in Adaptation( the endless ending). It's too bad, both are great movies with wonderful plots and styles, but why belabor them? - An excellent movie despite the slight dragging or repetitiveness, starting a little after the second half of the movie.

What a movie to start the New Year with! Even knowing the story by André Dubus, The House of Sand and Fog was still an intense viewing experience, I think an excellent transposition from the page to the screen. The casting is absolutely perfect, and while I'm not necessarily a Jenn.Connelly fan, she was absolutely up to par with the outstanding performances from all the other characters. The policeman's character looked out of place to me in the preview, but I was very impressed with Ron Eldard's performance, a very sincere, vulnerable man caught up, as everyone, in this one ugly wrinkle-in-time and circumstances...Pure tragedy, sadder even than "Tous les Matins du Monde", but a great achievement on the director's and all the actor's part. Ben Kinglsy, and the equally outstanding Shohreh Aghdashloo as his wife are amazing. The cinematography was nice, tastefully saturated and controlled to contrast with the desaturated foggy moments. An MTV-moment of Jennifer Connelly on a pier didn't work at all for me, in was the only time I was 'pulled out' of the story, though. One helluva sad story, an excellent filmic version of the very sad and excellent novel.