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 the political 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
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303160566 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6303160565 Label: Live / Artisan Manufacturer: Live / Artisan Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Live / Artisan Release Date: May 22, 2001 Running Time: 109 minutes Studio: Live / Artisan Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1994
Customer Reviews
POWERHOUSE
Wonderful stuff! Violence done, but underplayed just enough. Classy!
I like the spiritual dimension of this too. I read a number of Harold Klemp's books,
and they helped me most with a spiritual understanding of how life works.
Also Dethlefsen is very fine on that. - - -