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...beat him up). True, he liked the money that went with mall-rat adulation. But in interviews he exuded a pain beyond standard-issue superstar whining. He said his heroin use was a kind of self-medication for stomach pains, but what he really seemed in search of was psychic equilibrium...
Clara, Rosa's younger sister, records family events in her journal, and amuses herself with her psychic powers. She moves objects around the room with her eyes, producing only a slight reprimand from her mother (Vanessa Redgrave), who is apparently accustomed to her daughter's unusual gifts. Later, While telling fortunes to guests at a party in honor of the election of her father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) to the senate. Clara suddenly foresees her sister Rosa's untimely death. She screams at the shock of her premonition, which proves to be true (as are all of Clara's predictions). Hours...
This first segment of "The House of the Spirits" is the most successful at capturing the magical-realist atmosphere found in Allende's novel. Rosa, with her ghostly beauty, and young Clara, with her psychic powers, tiptoe on the line between reality and fantasy, adding an other-worldly quality to the film's beginning...
Ferula, who has moved to Tres Marias at Clara's insistence, hovers over her distracted sister-in-law, attending to practicalities when Clara and Ferula wrapped up in her psychic powers. Clara and Ferula become the best of friends while Esteban, suspicious of a romantic relationship between the two to them, grows insanely jealous of this competition for his wife's attention...
Suddenly it is the 1960s, and the Truebas are caught up in the country's political struggles. Clara continues to float around the house and exercise her psychic powers. While Blanca supports her revolutionary lover and fights for political change...