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Summary: If there is ever a Director's Cut -- Let me know!
Review: This is a film that makes me want to go out and get the book because I felt as if I needed to know all of the story. I had the feeling that much of the performance was edited out in order to fit in a 104 minute format. Sad! The story is of a young, sheltered woman who is awakened to the reality of life in a military dictatorship. Along the way she also learns "about love between a man and a women, love of family" love of country. Her teacher, Francisco Leal, a man who "works in the shadows" is played to perfection by Antonio Banderas. Jennifer Connelly is wonderful as Irene. The downside to this film is the heavy-handed editing.
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Summary: It [disappoints]
Review: This movie is so bad you are just going to laugh.
The acting is terrible, the settings are awful.
And of course you have Allende boring, cheesy and easy Writing. Obviosuly she depicts people in the chilean right as the "evil" ones, and the ones on the left as the "good" ones. Sorry but history is more complicated. The plot is an absurd left wing account of Chilean recent history. The movie also reaffirms that Allende is a terrible writer. ...Please don't see this movie. It is so bad.
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Summary: Even Connelly can't help this one..
Review: This movie just sucked. I rented it from BlockBuster because I love Jennifer Connelly and they gave it a good rating, but it was horrible! There were maybe 2 semi-interesting parts in the entire movie, and they only lasted about 6 minutes each. It seemed to rip off a bunch of movies that were made before, and I was almost falling asleep at some parts. If you are a hardcore Connelly fan, I would just recommend renting this one, because you probably won't want to watch it again. And she really doesn't reveal *anything* anyway.
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