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Bookmark this pageMississippi Mermaid (1969)
Director: François Truffaut
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From Time Out Film Guide
Belmondo, owner of a cigarette factory on the African island of Réunion, advertises for a wife, gets Deneuve (who isn't what she seems), falls in love, and finds himself embroiled in a succession of crises and suspicions. Derived from Cornell Woolrich's novel Waltz into Darkness (a title that effectively matches at least one aspect of the film), this belongs to the group of Truffaut films that includes The Bride Wore Black and A Gorgeous Bird Like Me; it's an elaborate, low-key thriller-fantasy that strains and modifies, comments on and fondly sends up pulp fiction, while taking pulp fiction's more mythic elements as its base. Gags multiply. And at the film's centre, remaining firmly in the mind, is Belmondo's Louis, ensnared, almost ensnaring himself and loving it, the victim of recurring nightmares in the Clinique Heurtebise.Author: VG
Cast & crew
Director: François Truffaut
Producer: Marcel Berbert
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Marcel Berbert, Roland Thénot full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 123 mins
US Release: Jul 10 2009
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