Mississippi Mermaid
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Movie Reviews of Mississippi Mermaid
Movie Review: Starts well, loses steam
Summary: 3 Stars
Catherine Deneuve's character is a mail-order bride who finds herself the wife of a handsome, sexy, rich plantation owner. He quickly falls in love with her. (Spoiler warning! Read no more if you can't see this coming.) Spends money like water. Pampers her. Most of us would kill to be in her pumps. Trouble is, she has. Once this becomes clear, the film, I think, starts to lose steam. I didn't find his behavior, after he tracks her down, believable. The first half-hour, as daydream material while at your desk in some death-like job, is terrific.Movie Review: The Rip Off is Better
Summary: 3 Stars
I think Original Sin - the rip off is much, much better. It stars Angeline and Antonia Banderes. Catherine Denuve - or whatever - CD is a boring actress. And I think she's like an ice zombie - and I don't think she's beautiful - though all the males I know disagree. I think Angelina (who is not a zombie) and Antonia are so very much better in Original Sin. My reommendation? Get both and compareMovie Review: Mississipi Mermaid.
Summary: 3 Stars
This film was made by the great Francois Truffaut. It is worth seeing just for Jean-Paul Belmondo and the young and beautiful Catherine Deneuve.Movie Review: Comparison shopping
Summary: 2 Stars
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?"
Movie Review: Misfit
Summary: 2 Stars
Unlike some other reviewers I read here, I have never met a Truffaut movie I've cared for. I 've tried: I mean, the guy is SOoooo famous. But Mississipi Mermaid epitomizes the disappointment I 've had with every Truffaut movie: odd casting, bad dialogue (I mean: the switches in French from Vous to Tu between wife/husband in 1969 are just plain grotesque!), hideous soundtrack overblown and overwhelming, incoherent story development...and add to that here a detestable DVD transfer with squiggles and blurs. Whooof! What a mess! But thank god for Belmondo and Deneuve, at least....