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There's been some joking over the years about Ben Kingsley's availability as an all-purpose ethnic, ready to play any character requiring a little salt in his accent or a skin tone darker than lily white. But what's not always said is that Kingsley, who is half Indian, takes ethnic impersonation as little more than a starting point: his Gandhi was witty and resourceful as well as saintly, and he was both unsentimental and touching as a Polish Jew in "Schindler's List." In the well-made but despondent new "House of Sand and Fog," adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, Kingsley plays an Iranian colonel from the days of the Shah, a proud man living in bitter exile in ...