Mississippi Mermaid

Mississippi Mermaid

Directed by: Francois Truffaut

Friday, February 12 - Monday, February 15, 2010

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“Francois Truffaut stepped out of his autobiographical comfort zone for this 1969 film, a romantic thriller set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and based on the novel ‘Waltz into Darkness’ by Cornell Woolrich (writing under his William Irish pseudonym). Jean-Paul Belmondo is a tobacco planter who writes away for a mail-order bride; when Catherine Deneuve shows up at his doorstep, things seem a bit too good to be true, and so they are. (MISSISSIPPI MERMAID) returns, ripe for re-evaluation.” – Dave Kehr, The New York Times, 2009

NR, , French
France, 1969


"So full of lovely, complex things - of unannounced emotions, of ideas, of the memories of other movies (Truffaut's, as well as of those of two of his father-figures, Renoir and Hitchcock) - that it defies easy definition and blithely triumphs."
- Vincent Canby, The New York Times


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