Mississippi Mermaid

  • Friday, Jul 24, 2026

    7 PM (123 mins)
    BAMPFA

    SOLD OUT

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Mississippi Mermaid

(La sirène du Mississipi)

François Truffaut
France, 1969
  • Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Laura Truffaut

    Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques.

featuring

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Nelly Borgeaud, Marcel Berbert,

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a wealthy industrialist living on the island of La Réunion (the locale changed from the New Orleans of the novel), who orders a bride by mail and receives, in place of his intended, Catherine Deneuve and a flimsy (but acceptable) explanation. “The framework is pure film noirmaterial, but the sentiments it contains are worthy of Jean Renoir, to whom the film is dedicated. . . . [It] begins as a mystery, evolves into a Hitchcockian chase suspense, and ends as a Truffautesque love story—altogether the most ambitious mix of genres so far” (James Monaco, New Wave).

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • François Truffaut

Based On

  • the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich

Cinematographer

  • Denys Clerval

Language

  • French
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 123 mins

Source

  • The Film Desk

Event Accessibility

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