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Assistant Dean of Radcliffe College and former co-master of Quincy House Rosa. B. Shinagel said it would be a "tremendous loss" to the college if Jewett steps down...
...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...
Scenes of the Del Valle family and friends all dressed in white at a garden party are reminiscent of the wedding scenes in "Like Water for Chocolate," a film which "The House of the Spirits" often attempts to imitate. The magic is also present in the scene of Rosa's autopsy, and artful combination of fantasy and the grotesque...
...After Rosa's death. Clara retreats into silence from the shock, emerging from her personal dream world 20 years later to marry Esteban herself and begin her life as matriarch of the Trueba family. the grown Clara (Meryl Streep) and much older Esteban (Jeremy Irons with another layer of make-up) move to Tres Marias, a restored country estate, where they are joined by Esteban's mysterious spinster sister, Ferula (Glenn Close...