Mississippi Mermaid

(1969)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 225 votes

Genres: Romance, Drama, Crime, Thriller

Year: 1969

Runtime: 122 мин

Country: France, Italy

Director: François Truffaut

Cast: Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Катрин Денёв, Мишель Буке, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière, Marcel Berbert, Yves Drouhet, Roland Thénot

Plot

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry him. He only knows her by mail. The woman that comes does not like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway. Soon, she flees with Louis' money. She was not the real Julie Roussel but Marion. Louis tries to find her... Another Truffaut's film about passion.