Mississippi Mermaid
Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2009
(François Truffaut, France, 1969, 35mm, 123 min)
Inspired by Hitchcock and dedicated to Jean Renoir, François Truffaut’s updating of Cornell Woolrich’s story stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wealthy industrialist living on a remote island in the Indian Ocean and Catherine Deneuve as a lovely, double-crossing mail-order bride. When Deneuve empties his bank account and disappears, Belmondo follows her back to Europe and straight into a whirlpool of murder and deceit. Mixing noir and romantic melodrama, the film creates a complex mélange of guilt, obsession and l’amour fou.
