Mississippi Mermaid (Truffaut, 1969): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.35pm
This Francois Truffaut film is part of the director's season is also being screened on Ferbruary 6th and 25th at BFI Southbank (full details here).
Chicago Reader review:
Francois Truffaut’s free adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s masochistically doom-ridden Waltz Into Darkness,
in ‘Scope and color, yields an unsuccessful but sympathetic exploration
of the filmmaker’s underrated darker side. A wealthy tobacco planter
(Jean-Paul Belmondo) sends for a mail-order bride, and the mysterious
lady who turns up is not the woman he was led to expect but Catherine
Deneuve. Stately and languorous in its dreamy melancholy, though never
entirely convincing, this 1969 picture is full of movie references—even
the cabin at the end of Truffaut’s own Shoot the Piano Player figures centrally. But perhaps its ultimate justification is that of Truffaut’s other morbid films, such as The Bride Wore Black and The Green Room: a doomed romantic protagonist (in this case Belmondo) who goes the limit.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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