Mississippi Mermaid
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| Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirène du Mississippi) |
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| Directed by | François Truffaut |
| Produced by | Marcel Berbert François Truffaut |
| Written by | François Truffaut William Irish |
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| Cinematography | Denys Clerval |
| Distributed by | United Artists (U.S.) |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 123 minutes |
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Mississippi Mermaid (French: La Sirène du Mississippi) is a 1969 French film directed by François Truffaut. The film is adapted from the 1947 William Irish novel Waltz into Darkness.
[edit] Synopsis
Truffaut juggles an Hitchcockian suspense/thriller with deepening sexual obsession. Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo) owns a tobacco plantation and cigarette factory on Réunion Island, but it's lonely work — so he sends away for a mail-order bride.
Much to his surprise, the lovely and intoxicating Julie (Catherine Deneuve) arrives by ship (the Mississippi Mermaid of the title), looking nothing like the picture he had received by mail. Louis quickly falls for Julie, while discovering that she is decidedly not the woman with whom he had been corresponding.
Ultimately, this strange tale transforms itself into a charismatic love story, in which both participants struggle to forgive each other's secrets and lies — allowing them to ultimately abandon regret and fear of an uncertain future.
In the film's finale, Truffaut returns to the same barren, snowbound cabin that he used to such great effect in Shoot the Piano Player, with substantially less fatalistic results.
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| 1950s | Une Visite • Les Mistons • Une Histoire d'eau • The 400 Blows |
| 1960s | Shoot the Piano Player • Jules and Jim • Antoine and Colette • The Soft Skin • Fahrenheit 451 • The Bride Wore Black • Stolen Kisses • Mississippi Mermaid |
| 1970s | The Wild Child • Bed and Board • Two English Girls • Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me • Day for Night • The Story of Adele H. • Small Change • The Man Who Loved Women • The Green Room • Love on the Run |
| 1980s | The Last Metro • The Woman Next Door • Confidentially Yours |
| Screenplay only | Breathless • The Little Thief • Belle Époque (miniseries) |
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