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Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Berbert, Martine Ferriere, Michel Bouquet
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
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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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
Francois Truffaut . i think that i have seen all his movies .
and my Goddess Caitrin Denev
