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Review: This movie has two things in its favor (thus, my two* rating): 1. Great outdoor scenery (on the seldom-photographed Indian Ocean island of Reunion); 2. The opportunity to see both its stars (Deneuve and Belmondo) in their prime and without their shirts.Otherwise, forget it.The 2000 remake entitled Original Sin is less talky, more suspenseful, cheaper in cost (at least on Amazon), has an American (as opposed to a French) ending, and also features topless (and bottomless) stars (Jolie and Banderas). The novella to which both movies owe their inspiration, Waltz into Darkness (by the same guy who wrote Rear Window), is better than either movie, and has the best ending (truly noir) of all. All three versions require a definite suspension of disbelief. As a couple other reviewers of one or the other of the movie versions asked: "How could anybody (i.e., the Belmondo/Banderas character) be so dumb?"
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