Blu-ray Release: Mississippi Mermaid

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Laurence
– May 7, 2015Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , , , ,

Blu-ray Release Date: June 9, 2015
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time

François Truffaut (The Bride Wore Black) directs Jean-Paul Belmondo (Leon Morin, Priest) and Catherine Denueve (Belle de Jour) in the 1969 film noir drama Mississippi Mermaid.

JJean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Denueve in Mississippi Mermaid

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Denueve in Mississippi Mermaid

Truffaut’s adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s Waltz into Darkness, Mississippi Mermaid stars the iconic Belmondo as a wealthy plantation owner on Réunion Island who falls madly in love with his mail-order bride (the stunning Deneuve), despite the fact that she is not quite what she seems—and is, in fact, a lot worse.

A cool combo of film noir, star vehicle, picaresque romance and obsessive love tale, the movie features music by Antoine Duhamel, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.