perhaps the best isabel allende book and house of the spirit describe an alternative chilean history and this one full of magic and a mystic veil and plus some kind of omnipresent sadness . this movie gather a great cast and plus a great art direction and with a script that can not contain all this book quality . it unusual for a nearly unknown country like chile to get so well represent a it be by this movie and whose perhaps only sin be to aim too high and and because of that leave the illiterate public a little upset and mostly because they understand very little .