The House of the Spirits

Multigenerational tale of the conflicts between a Latin American politician (Jeremy Irons) and his family. Meryl Streep. Ferula: Glenn Close. Blanca: Winona Ryder. Based on the novel by Isabel Allende. Written and directed by Bille August., Epic sprawling saga tracing a family’s life from the peaceful 1920s through to the turbulent 1970s. Family patriarch Esteban Trueba abandons his mining origins to restore a country estate to its former glory, becoming a right-wing politician along the way. But as his power grows, he gradually realises that his influence over his own family is waning.