Mississippi Mermaid

La Sirène du Mississippi

Deneuve and Belmondo excel in Truffaut’s crime mystery about an arranged marriage going catastrophically off the rails.

Photograph: Leonard de Raemy

  • Director

    François Truffaut

  • With

    Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Marcel Berbert

  • France-Italy 1969. 123min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

Truffaut’s adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s Waltz Into Darkness has a wealthy but lonely businessman (Belmondo) advertise for a wife, only to have a woman (Deneuve) arrive from France noticeably more glamorous than the one in the photo he received. It’s the first of many surprises, mysteries, twists and turns in a sumptuous, emotionally sadomasochistic tale of betrayal, revenge and erotic obsession.

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