Recycled sin, more like it, but preposterously entertaining nonetheless: Pulp novelist Cornell Woolrich's 1947
Waltz into Darkness was already filmed more than 30 years ago by François Truffaut as MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (1969), in which a Madagascan tobacco farmer (Jean-Paul Belmondo) asks for a mail-order bride and gets a shady lady (Catherine Deneuve). Here, turn of the 19th-century Cuban bachelor Louis Vargas (Antonio Banderas) advertises in an American newspaper for a wife. The woman who introduces herself as Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie, who's surprisingly effective despite her aggressively modern looks — her lush lips and angular frame would have...
Released:
2001
Rated:
n/a
Length:
116 mins