![]() Like many politically silent members of her class, Irene is living a sheltered life. ![]() ![]() The story is told from the point of view of Irene Beltran (Connely), the attractive daughter of a privileged Chilean family, who lives with her mother on the family’s estate, the Will of God Manor, which has been converted to senior citizens home. Miramax’s publicity machine needs all the help it can get in broadening the appeal of this long-on-the-shelves meller beyond Banderas’ fans and viewers interested in political fare. ![]() The Spaniard heartthrob, who soon might suffer from overexposure, plays a dissident doctor who’s forced to work as a photographer and in the process falls for an attractive journalist, played by the very American Jennifer Connelly. Set in Chile in 1973, Of Love and Shadows, the second screen adaptation of popular Chilean novelist, Isabel Allende, is just as misconceived and curiously uninvolving as the first one (Th House of the Spirit), with one major exception: It has a credible star, Antonio Banderas, in the lead. ![]()
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