Mississippi Mermaid
by François Truffaut
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Actor: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Berbert, Martine Ferrière, Nelly BorgeaudDirector: François Truffaut
Brand: Sony
Producer: Marcel Berbert
Cinematographer: Denys Clerval
Writer: François Truffaut
Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Writer: Cornell Woolrich
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
Published: 2001-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Mississippi Mermaid
Movie Review: One of Truffaut's best...
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a huge fan of french new wave, especially Goddard and Truffaut- this is one of Truffaut's very best. Here he combines romance, passion, and suspense like no other director could. Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo have always given excellant performances, and this is no exception. Their intensity and chemistry together is amazing.
Summary of Mississippi Mermaid
This enthralling, erotic tale of a young millionaire and his mysterious bride is "bewitching" (The New York Times), "exciting and beautiful" (Time). Written and directed by legendary cinematic genius François Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and featuring European superstars Catherine Deneuve (Indochine) and Jean-Paul Belmondo (Les Miserables), Mississippi Mermaid is nothing less than "breathtaking" (Newsweek)! Beauty is by no means rare on the lush, tropical Isle de Reunion. Yet when island resident and tobacco tycoon Louis Mahe (Belmondo) first meets Julie Rouselle (Deneuve)his mail-order fiancÃ(c)ehe's completely enraptured by her radiance. But it soon becomes clear that Julie is hiding a dark secret. And when she disappears without a trace, Louis vows to stop at nothing to find hera resolution that lures him into a tangled web of relentless obsession, uncontrollable passion, and ultimately cold-blooded murder!Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as the owner of a cigarette factory on an African island, and a single man who advertises for a wife and, voilà, gets Catherine Deneuve. Problem is, however, she isn't quite what she seems in this 1969 drama by François Truffaut, taken from a Cornell Woolrich novel called Waltz into Darkness. Suspicions lead to deception and deception to murder, and along the way Belmondo's character, despite everything, continues to fall in love with his enigmatic prize, which is really the point of the film: the protagonist, almost as if he were willing himself into a noir myth, seems determined to fall under the spell of a romantic delusion. A fine effort by Truffaut that is the best of his mid-period pulpy, suspense films (along with The Bride Wore Black and Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me). --Tom Keogh
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