Mississippi Mermaid (1969) - Twilight Time - June 9, 2015

[Akijama]

"Dazzling! A romantic salute to grand passion!" -Los Angeles Times

This enthralling, erotic tale of a young millionaire and his mysterious bride is "bewitching" (The New York Times), "exciting and beautiful" (Time Magazine). Written and directed by legendary cinematic genius Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and featuring European superstars Catherine Deneuve (Indochine) and Jean-Paul Belmondo (Les Miserables), Mississippi Mermaid is nothing less than "breathtaking" (Newsweek)!

Beauty is by no means rare on the lush, tropical Isle de Reunion. Yet when island resident and tobacco tycoon Louis Mahe (Belmondo) first meets Julie Rouselle (Deneuve) - his mail-order fiancée - he's completely enraptured by her radiance. But it soon becomes clear that Julie is hiding a dark secret. And when she disappears without a trace, Louis vows to stop at nothing to find her - a resolution that lures him into a tangled web of relentless obsession, uncontrollable passion, and ultimately...cold-blooded murder!

"MISSISSIPPI MERMAID" TRAILER - YouTube

[javi92]

Awesome news that more Truffaut is coming. I'm guessing TT also have Day for Night. Hopefully Criterion will put out The Wild Child.

[Brad1963]

It has been a great year for Truffaut fans. Keep them coming!

[spargs]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

It has been a great year for Truffaut fans. Keep them coming!

Exactly! That's 4 Truffaut films already released/announced this year (3 from TT and another from Criterion).

[Todd Tomorrow]

Like The Bride Wore Black it's based on a Cornell Woolwich novel, but I far prefer The Bride Wore Black. I'm a huge Truffaut fan but this is one of the few films of his I don't care for, maybe because I'm a fan of Woolwich and in particular this novel of his called Waltz Into Darkness. Deneuve looks lovely, but she was miscast as a

[Show spoiler]scheming femme fatale.

The novel got adapted again with Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas as Original Sin, but despite keeping the 19th century setting of the book (unlike the Truffaut film) it was even worse. I really wished someone would do that book justice one day, because its a great story.

[GenPion]

I was hoping Small Change would be the next Truffaut release but this is excellent news! Really glad this has been announced. Hopefully Twilight Time continues to release more Truffaut titles on Blu-ray throughout the year (and next).

[obscurelabel]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

Like The Bride Wore Black it's based on a Cornell Woolwich novel, but I far prefer The Bride Wore Black. I'm a huge Truffaut fan but this is one of the few films of his I don't care for, maybe because I'm a fan of Woolwich and in particular this novel of his called Waltz Into Darkness. Deneuve looks lovely, but she was miscast as a

[Show spoiler]scheming femme fatale.

The novel got adapted again with Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas as Original Sin, but despite keeping the 19th century setting of the book (unlike the Truffaut film) it was even worse. I really wished someone would do that book justice one day, because its a great story.

For some reason I really like this movie even though I don't think it's really that good. It has a unique, off-kilter vibe. I was trying to think of how to describe it, and the first thing I thought of is that it seems as if the movie is made up of everything that was left over after the real (that is, non-existent) movie was put together. That is, all the outtakes and cut scenes. As if somewhere there is a smooth, conventional, coherent version of the movie, but the one we have isn't it.

I will be picking this up anyway, the MGM non-anamorphic disc is a chore to watch. Thankfully I saw this at a repertory theater years ago.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by javi92

Awesome news that more Truffaut is coming. I'm guessing TT also have Day for Night. Hopefully Criterion will put out The Wild Child.

Day for Night is a Warner title, so it's pretty unlikely that TT have that one.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by javi92

Awesome news that more Truffaut is coming. I'm guessing TT also have Day for Night. Hopefully Criterion will put out The Wild Child.

Day for Night is a Warner title. So it's a 99.9% improbability that TT has that one. They do most likely have Small Change though, from MGM.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Day for Night is the most glaring omission of the as yet unreleased titles. Small Change is great too.

[GenPion]

Rumor is that Criterion has a deal with WB now. Might include titles like Day for Night and Kurosawa's Dreams.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Rumor is that Criterion has a deal with WB now.

Source? WB is infamous as the one studio who never license anything (the Badlands rights were with Pressman, and the UK Devils was DVD-only). There is the New World clue, but that's likely a one-film 'exception', not part of an actual multi-film deal.

[The Prowler]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Rumor is that Criterion has a deal with WB now. Might include titles like Day for Night and Kurosawa's Dreams.

Yeah, I heard the same (from a source offline). From what I've been told they gave them twenty titles including Blow Up, The New World and Before Sunset/Sunrise in addition to the two you mentioned.

[latehong]

German Explosive Media released this last year and according to Caps-a-holic.com, it has German, French, Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese, I guess?) and English removable subtitles.

It's clear that the German release is based on the same old master the Twilight Time release used, with perhaps marginally better encoding, but I might still double-dip it because this is my no.1 favorite Truffaut (very minor opinion, I know) and those burned-in yellow subtitles have bugged the hell out of me.