House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Directed by Vadim Perelman
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
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Other celebrated films featuring memorable portrayals of booze hounds such as Harvey (1952), The Verdict (1982), Barfly (1987), Leaving Las Vegas (1995) and House of Sand and Fog (2003) have richly textured drunks — though not of the highly functional kind — and almost always hover on the border of stereotype.
As seen in such appropriately titled films as "House of Sand and Fog" and "True Grit," a Deakins composition opens eyes to the surprising presence of a mote-dense slant of sunlight or to the fingerlike indentations in the wood of a table on which an outlaw is about to lose a hand.