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directed by Bille August
Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and a novel which moves naturally between dreams; myth and reality, skillfully weaving together magic and politics in an epic Latin American tale, somehow flops in the jump to the movie screen, where writer and director Bille August creates a confusing jumble...
DIRECTOR: BILLE AUGUST
THE BOTTOM LINE: Bergman's back and Bille's got him, for a handsome soap opera with a radiant star performance.
The Best Intentions -- written by Bergman but directed by Bille August, the Dane who made Pelle the Conqueror -- proves you can't keep a solemn Swede down. It recounts the first married years of Bergman's parents, whose later lives he dramatized in his family-album movie, Fanny and Alexander...