Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Berbert

Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry her. He only knows her by mail. The woman that comes does not like the picture he got, but he marries her an...( read more  read more... )yway. Soon, she flees with Louis' money. She was not the real Julie Roussel but Marion. Louis tries to find her...

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PG, 2 hrs. 3 min.

Directed by: François Truffaut

Release Date: January 15, 1969

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DVD Release Date: January 23, 2001

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  • January 21, 2008
    I'm not sure sure, but I pretty confident that Original Sin (2001) was remake of this film. Original Sin sucked but Mississippi Mermaid is a solid film.
  • August 17, 2009
    Mar 09 - A masterpiece by one of the most incredible masters. Amazingly it stars from the reality and all of a sudden you are in the middle of a modern fairy tale. The final sequence is so memorable.
  • January 16, 2009
    Francois Truffaut's strange take on pulp noir, with plantation owner Belmondo shipping in a mail order bride and getting Catherine Deneuve... who looks nothing like the girl he's ordered, but (not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, presumably) marries her anyway, only to ...( read more)realise -- shock! horror! -- she's out to rip him off for everything he owns. But this is merely a springboard for an odyssey of obsessive and often illogical love, as Belmondo tracks her down. What follows is weird, wonderful, wildly overlong and unwieldy. The lead performances are terrific, and Truffaut is, as always, playful with genre conventions, but he kind of gets stuck on the one track here, and the result is about 20 minutes too long.
  • June 6, 2008
    An okay film but slightly dull. Didn't really like the ending.
    Gets better if you analyse it, because it's actually dealing (much in the same way as Bergman's The Silence) with the two sides of femininity.
  • March 10, 2008
    Franchement surpris, non pas seulement de l'incroyable performance de Belmondo, lui qui m'avait âprement déçu dans quelques autres films, non pas seulement non plus de celle de Deneuve, qui incarne à elle seule une telle vivacité, une telle douleur que ça en devient tout simpleme...( read more)nt beaucoup trop éblouissant pour nos petits yeux, mais bien par la fluidité du scénario.

    A priori, l'histoire m'apparaissait banale, voire même un peu cliché, quand bien même Truffaut était parvenu à introduire une vraie énigme sans avoir recours à la musique suspecte ou aux sourcils froncés pour faire comprendre au spectateur que quelque chose ne fonctionnait pas.

    Plus le film avance, plus la simplicité même du scénario se métamorphose en une complication extrême, qui met en jeu les normes sociales et la définition même de l'amour passionnel.
  • February 5, 2008
    Francois Truffaut . i think that i have seen all his movies .
    and my Goddess Caitrin Denev
  • December 27, 2007
    Franchement, j'ai vraiment aimé.

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