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House of the Spirits
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close,
Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas
Based on Isabel Allende's novel and set in a South American country beset by constant turmoil and bloody power struggles, this film follows three generations of the Truebas family from the 1920s through the 1970s. Just as the nation around them is at odds with itself, the family painfully and passionately experiences its own evolution.A cinematic rendering of Isabelle Allende's critically acclaimed magical-realist novel about three generations of a Chilean family. The film investigates the personal and social upheavals that tear apart both family and country -- until, in one moment of understanding, the patriarch -- spurred by the diaries of his dead wife -- renounces his life of power and oppression in an act of unprecedented heroism.Author Isabelle Allende is the daughter of former Chilean president Salvador Allende, whose regime was overthrown by a violent right-wing coup. (1993). 109 MINUTES.
