Mississippi Mermaid

Mississippi Mermaid

The bride came as advertised... with an unadvertised special.

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Release Date

6/18/1969

Runtime

123 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

$1,600,000

Revenue

$7,356,000

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A sumptuous, paranoid thriller about desire and deception, where a man's romantic fantasy curdles into nightmare as he discovers his bride is not who she claims to be. It's a film about the dangerous gap between fantasy and reality, suspended in tropical languor.

Mood

UnsettlingRomanticParanoidDread-soakedBittersweet

Themes

LoveIdentityBetrayalObsessionCrime

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

PainterlyNaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Two-hander

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Sexual content

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