Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film’s collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources – including Kafka and Montaigne – and crafts a world of theatrical artifice far from the documentary inspired naturalism of Ana and Trás-os-Montes. Reis and Cordeiro’s least known film has lingered in obscurity and never recovered from the unfairly negative reviews that resulted in its severely limited release. Reis died less than two years later, just as he and Cordeiro were about to begin an ambitious adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parámo. - Harvard Film Archive
Unfortunately the movie Rosa de Areia is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Margarida Cordeiro | Director |
| Camera | Acácio de Almeida | Director of Photography |
| Production | José Mazeda | Producer |
| Production | Acácio de Almeida | Producer |
| Writing | Margarida Cordeiro | Screenplay |
| Writing | António Reis | Screenplay |
| Directing | António Reis | Director |
| Sound | Denis Séchaud | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Art | José Vian | Set Decoration |
| Art | António Reis | Art Direction |
| Editing | Margarida Cordeiro | Editor |
| Art | Margarida Cordeiro | Art Direction |
| Editing | António Reis | Editor |
