The House of the Spirits [VHS]

starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas
directed by: Bille August
The House of the Spirits [VHS]
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Amazon.com:
The House of the Spirits is a generational tale of life among the ruling class in a South American country, as adapted from the Isabel Allende novel, but thepolitical realities coexist very uneasily with the magical realism in this Bille August film. The star power alone (Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Armin Mueller-Stahl) should have cranked it up a few notches, but that's not the case. Irons is appropriately cruel as the ambitious man who achieves wealth and makes everyone around him miserable and Streep is luminous, but it's slow and ponderous all the way. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - I love this film!
Of course the book is far better than the movie as it usually happens, yet I can't help but love this film and I think the main reason is because it was great and refreshing to see Winona Ryder play acharacter unlike any other she had done prior to this movie.

In reality this movie should have been made into a miniseries, having other characters such as Clara's excentric uncle who appears at the beginning in the book, the twins and Alba's love interest. Nonetheless, this movie with ... Read More
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A rewarding film!
From the touchinginspiration of Isabel Allende, this feminine perspective deals about the profound emotional conflicts inside a wealthy family. The film makes a smart narrative ellipsis through threwe generations along seventy years, and shows us those first insights of a little child by then, who is gifted of premonitory visions, who falls in love with the boyfriend of her sister. She foresees an imminent tragedy and lives with this terrible sense of guilt by not having been able to avoid it.
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - reconciliation and growth- the "connection between events"- that's what the movie is about
At least that's what it meant to me. Replace "South America" in all reviews by the word "Chile", because that is where the story belongs in its cut and dry facts. A wealthy family, a Shakespearean love between a peasant's son and a land owner's daughter; betrayal, rage, passion, violence and murder, ghosts (spirits), rebelion and freedom: all these are just some of the ingredients portraid in the movie with a great line up, awsome landscape and fairly good soundtrack. If you ever visit Chile, please see ... Read More
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Corrections for Synopsis
Extremely Fantastic Movie!I just happened along this movie on
The IFC Channel, hate to think how many really good movies I miss and have missed.

Please rewrite the synopsis as follows: sentence #2, "The poor Estaban marries Clara and they have (not get) a daughter, Blanca.
Sentence #3, Estaban works hard and earns (not gets) the money to buy.....

After reading the negative reviews on this movie I would like to remind people that the book was 'loosely based' on the ... Read More
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - AN OUTSTANDING FAMILY SAGA...
I love this movie! It has a stellar cast, who give top notch performances. How can you go wrong with Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Antonio Banderas, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Redgrave, and Armin Muehler-Stahl? The answer is that you can't. It is a riveting piece of film making, based loosely upon Isabelle Allende's wonderful book of the same name.

The film delicately captures the mysticism of the book, rendering those scenes in which such is the focal point highly believable. This is ... Read More
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