Meanwhile, however, Kathy's argument that her eviction was a bureaucratic error seems to have some merit, but the two parties fail to communicate. He and his family (quite beautifully played by Shohreh Aghdashloo and Jonathon Ahdout) move in and are happy. He can also fix it up, re-sell it, move onwards and upwards, and see his son through college. When he sees that this house with a view of the Pacific Ocean is being auctioned, Behrani wants it because he is haunted by memories of his lost bungalow on the Caspian Sea. There is a riveting scene in which he enters a smart building filthy in his work clothes, escapes the hostile doorman, washes in the men's room and emerges, unrecognised, imperious in an elegant suit. While she's sleeping in her car and wandering barefoot (with suspiciously pedicured tootsies) swigging from liquor bottles, our hearts go out instead to Kingsley's Behrani, a former colonel in Iran who maintains a facade of prosperity and authority while labouring on a road construction crew. Connelly's Kathy is preposterously lovely for such a loser, but from the moment we hear she's being evicted because she hasn't opened her mail for months - indeed, she appears not to have been out of bed for months - it's clear she's not firing on all cylinders. This slow-burning adaptation of Andre Dubus III's bestselling novel of pride and prejudice, possession and obsession, is initially intriguing and laden with dread.
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