Film
Mississippi Mermaid
Sat, Apr 18, 2015
- 5:15PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 123min
FORMAT: 35mm
LANGUAGE: In French with English subtitles
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $9 (Movie Moguls free)
SENIORS/STUDENTS/VETERANS: $10 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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April 2015
Saturday April 18, 2015
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2015
series The Vertigo Effect
Directed by François Truffaut | 1969
With Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud
"So full of lovely, complex things—of unannounced emotions, of ideas, of the memories of other movies—that it defies easy definition"
—The New York Times
“Degradation, by love” is how Truffaut characterized the theme of this dark tale of romantic obsession based on a Cornell Woolrich novel. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as a wealthy tobacco farmer on an African island who gets a surprise when his mail order bride turns out to be a mysterious beauty (Deneuve) with a shady past. Truffaut peppers this color noir with allusions to everything from Renoir to Johnny Guitar, but its lacerating depiction of amour fou is pure Vertigo.