![]() And when Julia walks out with his money, the only shock is that he is caught off guard. Luis does fall for her, despite his detachment. The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. He doesn't just work at a coffee plantation he's one of its owners. ![]() He'll forgive her just this once because it turns out he has also lied. Jolie), but only because she didn't want a man to fall for her just because she's a pretty face. When the Julia who shows up and purrs at him doesn't resemble the photo, he is lost. Jolie in the same shot, but ''Original Sin'' will bore the giggles right out of you. It's hard to keep a straight face just thinking of Mr. It seems ridiculous to put these two in a romantic melodrama their faces alone are melodramatic enough. And then there's her fearless avidity for acting. His co-star is Angelina Jolie, whose sultriness is so overwhelming that she's a real-life caricature as drawn by Mad magazine's Mort Drucker, with her sofa-cushion lips and a chin cleft so deep that mushrooms could grow in its shadow. But in ''Original Sin'' (and the most original thing about the picture is the use of that word in the title), he's not alone as the laughing stock. Banderas is shoved into a familiar position: the butt of the joke. But few directors have figured out a way to use him well in serious pictures, and Michael Cristofer, the director of the earnest romance ''Original Sin,'' won't make that list.Īs Luis, a worldly late-19th-century Cuban aristocrat who learns that he is naïve after all, Mr. When his falcon's-wingspan lashes start fluttering, you're laughing with him. Banderas's awareness of his beauty and his sense of humor about it, as well as his swift reflexes as an actor, can often keep him from being absurd. (He probably laughed at the semaphore-broad impression of him that Chris Kattan brandished before the cameras on ''Saturday Night Live.'') Pedro Almodóvar often exploited the actor's luscious Iberian looks, musical vocal delivery and sexy caterpillar eyebrows, and Mr. It's safe to say that Antonio Banderas is the campiest heterosexual left in show business, if not on the planet.
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