Mississippi Mermaid

About Mississippi Mermaid

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.

Mississippi Mermaid is a 1969 crime romance film directed by François Truffaut. It runs 123 minutes and was released in June 1969.

The film is filed under love of one's life, femme fatale, beautiful woman, and plantation.

Jean-Paul Belmondo takes the lead as Louis Mahé, Catherine Deneuve as Julie Roussel, Michel Bouquet as Comolli, and Nelly Borgeaud as Berthe. Produced by Les Films du Carrosse. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

Indochine, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Four Weddings and a Funeral make useful companions to Mississippi Mermaid, all filed under fugitive lovers. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 230 votes and it carries a R rating.