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Mississippi Mermaid is a french film of genre Drama directed by François Truffaut released in USA on 10 april 1970 with Catherine Deneuve

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

Mississippi Mermaid
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Released in USA 10 april 1970
Length 2h3
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime,    Romance
Rating68% 3.445253.445253.445253.445253.44525

Mississippi Mermaid (French: La sirène du Mississipi) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean 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. Filmed in southern France and Réunion island, Mississippi Mermaid was the 17th highest grossing film of the year in France with a total of 1,221,027 admissions.
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Louis Mahé (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), whom he's never met. They became acquainted through the personals column of a French newspaper and have been corresponding by mail. At the Hotel Mascarin he meets his partner Jardine who accompanies him to pick up the ring. Louis drives to the dock to greet Julie who is arriving on the steamer Mississipi (spelled with one p according to the French spelling of the river at the time)from Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia.
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