Well, I read the novel by E. M. Forster, and I think Merchant-Ivory are best adapted in the cinema selection for Forster than Henry James (awful movies: The bostonians, The europeans and The golden bowl). This costume and old cars tragicomedy is amazing with the wonderful and talkative heroin Emma Thompson, but the subject of house inheritance and blood heredity is so universal and strong that the movie seems a chilean story.