![]() Julia and Luis do not sleep together on their wedding night. We are both not to be trusted.” With this less than promising introduction behind them, they get married that very evening. Julia sums up their mutual deception: “Well, then we have something in common. He acknowledges that he did not want a woman to be interested in him, as Julia puts it, only because he owned a pretty bank account. He wrote that he was a clerk in a coffee export house, but in fact he owns the business. Luis says that he too was not entirely truthful in his correspondence. And you know the worst.” Somehow, one suspects that he doesn’t. With a demure smile, Julia tells him, “Now I stand before you as I am. She tells Luis that she did not want a man to be interested in her only because she owned a pretty face. Julia admits that she deceived him: she sent a photograph of another woman. From the photograph she sent him, Luis was expecting Julia to be plain. When his new bride, Julia Russell (Jolie), steps off the boat, Luis is shocked by her beauty. So he arranges to import a mail-order bride from an advertisement in a Baltimore newspaper. Although his coffee business is flourishing and he lives the life of a privileged plantation owner in Santiago, he lacks a wife. Luis Antonio Vargas (Banderas) is a wealthy Cuban coffee planter and merchant in the late 1800s. Original Sin is a 2001 thriller (usually described as an “erotic” thriller) starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie in a tale of love, deception, murder-and coffee. ![]() Can a cup of coffee change your day? How about your life? ![]()
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