Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
- Original title
- La Sirène du Mississipi
- Directed by
- François Truffaut
- Genre
- drama film, neo-noir
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 220 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A wealthy tobacco planter on a remote island enters a marriage with a woman he met only through letters. His bride arrives but she is not the woman in the photograph. He agrees to marry her anyway and soon finds himself caught in a web of deception and obsession.
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What happens
Mississippi Mermaid (French: La Sirène du Mississipi) is a 1969 romantic crime drama film written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish, the film follows a tobacco planter on the island of Réunion who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives, it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway. Shot in Southern France and on Réunion, Mississippi Mermaid was the 16th highest-grossing film of 1969 in France, with a total of 1,227,657 admissions. It was remade in 2001 as Original Sin, directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Invisible Woman (1969)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.