This film surprised Charles Mudede with its goodness:

The film is very agreeable, despite its pretentious-sounding plot—a 28-year-old graduate student flies to Uruguay to convince the family of an obscure author to give him permission to write an authorized biography. The family lives on a decaying ranch. They have lots of land but no money. The young student falls in love with the dead writer's second, young, and rather silly wife. While the writer was alive, his first wife—an older, majestic, and more beautiful woman (Laura Linney)—lived with the younger (and unofficial) second wife. Much to the writer's creative frustration, the two women accepted the unconventional arrangement and got along reasonably well.

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