ORIGINAL SIN: sending up the rich

ORIGINAL SIN

The Paraguayan sex comedy Original Sin (Pecado Original) is primarily a social satire, sending up the stiffness of Paraguay’s upper class.  A young married couple is trapped by the roles expected of them, and the wife chafes at her life devoid of anything except daytime TV and day-drinking.  The husband is a prig, and has a particular repression that no male audience member will be able to relate to.  The wife MAY have purchased a painting at a charity auction, and the impossibly handsome artist show up to deliver the painting.  Raucous, and fairly predictable, humor ensues.  A duel-by-badminton is pretty funny.

Cinequest hosted the North American premiere of Original Sin.

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