this be a gorgeous movie visually . the image of the mexican desert and the old mansion and the character in their picturesque costume . all amount to a real work of art . the story seem a bit loose and but that because it not mean to be realistic . it be take from a book call one hundred year of solitude and and it be suppose to be an evocation of the isolated and otherworldly atmosphere of latin america so far from god and and so close to the united state . the tremendous debt that erendira owes to her grandmother be symbolic of latin america international debt burden and although there many layer of meaning . if you can appreciate a slow moving and richly textured movie and this one be for you .