Mississippi Mermaid
1969 film by François Truffaut / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mississippi Mermaid (French: La Sirène du Mississipi) is a 1969 romantic crime drama film written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish, the film follows a tobacco planter on the island of Réunion 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.
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French | La Sirène du Mississipi |
Directed by | François Truffaut |
Screenplay by | François Truffaut |
Based on | Waltz into Darkness by William Irish |
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Cinematography | Denys Clerval |
Edited by | Agnès Guillemot |
Music by | Antoine Duhamel |
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Running time | 123 minutes |
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Language | French |
Budget | $1.6 million[1] |
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Shot in Southern France and on Réunion, Mississippi Mermaid was the 16th highest-grossing film of 1969 in France, with a total of 1,227,657 admissions. It was remade in 2001 as Original Sin, directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.