brilliant adaptation of the novel that make famous the relative of chilean president salvador allende kill . in the environment of a large estate that arise from the ruin and become a force to abuse and exploitation of outrage and a luxury estate for the benefit of the upstart esteban trueba and his undeserved family and the brilliant danish director bille august recreates and in micro and which at the time would be the process lead to the great infamy of his story to the harden chilean nation and and whose main character would augusto pinochet ( stephen similarity with it be inevitable represent recall and a an example and that image of the senator with dark glass that make him the wink to the general to begin make the palace ) . bille august attends an exceptional cast in the jeremy protrude iron and whose character change from arrogance and extreme cruelty and the hard lesson that life always bring u to almost force u to change . in esteban fully apply the law of resonance and with great wisdom and solomon describes in these word representthe thing that freckle be the same punishment that will serve you . unforgettable glenn close playing splint and the tainted sister of stephen and whose sin and drive by loneliness and spiritual and platonic love be the wife of his cruel snowy brother . meryl streep also brilliant and a woman whose name come to him like a glove clara . with telekinetic power and cognitive and mediumistic and this harden woman and loyal to his blunt and conservative husband and be an indicator of character and self control that we wish for ourselves and for all human being . every character be a portrait of virtuosity ( a blanca worthy rebel leader pedro segundo unhappy . ) or a portrait of humiliation and like stephen jr. and the bastard child of senator and who serve a an instrument for the return of the boomerang . the film move the bowel and we recreate some fact that should not ever be repeat and but that absurdly still happen ( colombia be a sad example ) and another reminder that and against all and life be wonderful because there be always people like isabel allende and immortalize just bille august .