La Sirène du Mississipi
François Truffaut
After a romantic correspondence with Marion, a young woman he meets through a personal ad, Louis Mahé, a Frenchman living on the island of Reunion, sends for her on the Mississippi liner. They get married without delay, but Louis soon realizes this is not the Marion of his letters. Just as he decides to question her, she suddenly disappears. Louis hires a private detective to find her
With : Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud
Screenplay : François Truffaut, d'après le roman "Waltz into Darkness" de William Irish
Image : Denys Clerval
Sound : René Levert
Music : Antoine Duhamel
Editing : Agnès Guillemot
Screenplay : François Truffaut, d'après le roman "Waltz into Darkness" de William Irish
Image : Denys Clerval
Sound : René Levert
Music : Antoine Duhamel
Editing : Agnès Guillemot
Production : Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés, Produzioni Associate Delphos
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
Co-produced by Les Artists Associés around the same time as The Wild Child, this film had one of the most seductive posters of its day with the star-couple Deneuve-Belmondo. "It's The Female, The Blue Angel, The Bitch... That theme of the vamp, the femme fatale rendering an honest man powerless to the point of his becoming a puppet; all the directors I admire have filmed it. I told myself: I have to do it... And then I realized I couldn't. (...) Mississippi Mermaid shows a weak man (in spite of his appearance) spellbound by a strong woman (in spite of her appearance). What I was interested in, and what probably caused the film to flop, was the reversed love story. I was treating Jean-Paul Belmondo as a young virgin and Catherine Deneuve as an adventurer, and I think that shocked people." (F. Truffaut)