Original Sin (Blu-ray) R
This is not a love story – it's a story about love.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 7, 2011
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Angelina Jolie & Antonio Banderas | |
Performer: | Jack Thompson, Thomas Jane, Pedro Armendáriz, Gregory Itzin, Allison Mackie, Joan Pringle, Cordelia Richards & James Haven Voight | |
Directed by | Michael Cristofer | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Cristofer | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Denise Di Novi & Kate Guinzberg | |
Director of Photography: | Rodrigo Prieto | |
Executive Production by | Ashok Amritraj & David Hoberman |
Entertainment Reviews:
...ORIGINAL SIN remains compulsively watchable thanks to leads Antonio Banderas [and Angelina Jolie]....The pic is gorgeous...
Variety
Rating: 2/4 --
What we have here is simply an erotic thriller with so many melodramatic turns, it eventually becomes laughable.
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Mark Reviews Movies
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Cristofer takes liberties with the novel's downbeat ending and tacks on a happily ever after coda that seems more in keeping with something made under the studio system ...
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Baseline.Hollywood.com
Rating: 3/10 --
...the only sin committed was by the filmmakers producing the movie in the first place.
Movie Metropolis
...There are surprises on top of surprises....Jolie continues to stalk through pictures entirely on her own terms...
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is all posture, cliché, and editing-room Spackle.
Village Voice
Rating: 2/4 --
Cable fare masquerading as a theatrical feature because of its high-profile cast.
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Product Description:
Late nineteenth century Cuba. Dawn. At the docks, Luis (Antonio Banderas) waits for his American mail-order bride. But, his wait seems to be in vain. Then, magically, she appears--Julia (Angelina Jolie). And, she is beautiful, unlike the woman whose picture she sent. But Luis had lied as well--he wrote that he was only a clerk in the coffee company that he actually owns. In spite of their deceptions, they marry immediately. They are blissfully happy, although Julia has her demons. She has nightmares, she ignores her sister's letters, and--mysteriously--won't open her trunk. Her sister sends an unnerving detective to check that she arrived. Still unsatisfied, her sister arrives herself. That's when Julia disappears with the money in Luis's bank accounts, instantaneously transforming Luis's dream into a nightmare.
Scriptwriter/director Michael Cristofer explores sexual obsession and deception in ORIGINAL SIN. The sumptuous thriller, based on Cornell Woolrich's classic noir novel, has elegant, lush photography by Mexican director of photography Roderigo Prieto, and a Cuban-inflected jazz score by composer Terence Blanchard. Thomas Jane is forceful as the detective. Antonio Banderas captures Luis's bliss, bewilderment, and anger perfectly. But, the troubled center of the movie is Julia, and Angelina Jolie is at her best as she reveals the joy and turmoil of a woman who doesn't know how to deal with love and can't break free from her past.
Scriptwriter/director Michael Cristofer explores sexual obsession and deception in ORIGINAL SIN. The sumptuous thriller, based on Cornell Woolrich's classic noir novel, has elegant, lush photography by Mexican director of photography Roderigo Prieto, and a Cuban-inflected jazz score by composer Terence Blanchard. Thomas Jane is forceful as the detective. Antonio Banderas captures Luis's bliss, bewilderment, and anger perfectly. But, the troubled center of the movie is Julia, and Angelina Jolie is at her best as she reveals the joy and turmoil of a woman who doesn't know how to deal with love and can't break free from her past.