In mid-20th-century, the impoverished Esteban marries Clara and they have a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually has enough money to buy a hacienda, and he eventually becomes a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is unavoidable that Pedro and Esteban are pitted against each other. Esteban tries to st... (Full plot summary below)
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In mid-20th-century, the impoverished Esteban marries Clara and they have a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually has enough money to buy a hacienda, and he eventually becomes a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is unavoidable that Pedro and Esteban are pitted against each other. Esteban tries to stop the love affair between Pedro and his daughter by all means possible, but soon Blanca becomes pregnant and has a daughter. The void between father and daughter seems unbridgeable when Blanca moves in with Pedro.
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| WBAI RadioPrairie MillerAntonio Banderas invigorates this glum gothic family saga as a defiant young Chilean revolutionary. And without her idea for The House of The Spirits, Isabel Allende insists she would not be a writer today. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordSterling cast, but a thoroughly mundane movie |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperThe film does inherit the sweep of the novel and that helps it overcome some of its problems. |
| Washington PostJoe BrownCinematographer Jorgen Persson gives The House of the Spirits plenty of picturesque moments, but August's stolid, straightforward direction isn't suited to Allende's magical-realist voice. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenThe greatest actors in the world can't overcome a script that boils everything down to the Esperanto of cliche. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonNearly every magic detail, many key characters and half a generation has been sacrificed to clarify the plot. But so much has been cut away that only the skeleton of the story remains. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAugust's earnest International Motion Picture Adaptation remains all too tethered to earth, weighted down by a surfeit of good intentions. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyHow can an accomplished director take a great novel, the best actors working and the finest technicians available and make a film so... bland? It's a puzzlement. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAll of the characters have the right names, all of the necessary events occur, and indeed the very best local actors have been engaged. But the soul has been mislaid. |
| Empire MagazineAngie ErrigoGiven the talents involved, the film's hesitations in style and consistent failure to really move must be counted as a major disappointment. |
