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Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirène du Mississipi, 1969) is a thriller-romance by François Truffaut you can watch online on iFILM. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a tobacco planter on Réunion Island who arranges a mail-order marriage. The woman who steps off the boat looks nothing like the photograph. He marries her anyway.
She cleans out his bank account and vanishes. Louis tracks her across France, finds her, and still cannot stop loving her — even after he knows she stole his name, his money and his past. Adapted from Cornell Woolrich's novel Waltz into Darkness, the film is less a crime story than a study in deliberate self-ruin.
Catherine Deneuve plays the con woman with a stillness that makes her impossible to read. Belmondo, usually cast as the quick-witted charmer, goes the other direction here — slow, wounded, choosing to be deceived. Stream Mississippi Mermaid (1969) online on iFILM.
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