{"id":22998,"date":"2025-07-17T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=22998"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:43:32","slug":"mississippi-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/mississippi-mermaid\/","title":{"rendered":"MISSISSIPPI\u00a0MERMAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22999 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/la-sirene-du-mississipi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/la-sirene-du-mississipi.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/la-sirene-du-mississipi-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/la-sirene-du-mississipi-600x798.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>MISSISSIPPI\u00a0MERMAID<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 1970\u00a0 \u2013 123\u2032 \u2013 Drama, Thriller, Classic, Film Noir, Films &amp; Literature.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut.<br \/>\nBased on the Book by: Cornell Woolrich.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Jean-Paul Belmondo,\u00a0Catherine Deneuve,\u00a0Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Yves Drouhet.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA MGM+ release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Lonely on the island of R\u00e9union, tobacco planter Louis Mahe (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides to wed a mail-order bride. Although the woman who arrives off the ship, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), looks nothing like her picture, she&#8217;s still gorgeous. Their marriage seems to be going fine until Julie empties his bank accounts and disappears. This should be the end of Louis&#8217; obsession &#8212; but then he spots Julie in the south of France and falls under her spell once more.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B0DMQ71BFZ\/ref=atv_sr_fle_c_Tn74RA_9_2_3?sr=1-9&amp;pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&amp;pageTypeId=B0DMQD16N9&amp;qid=1752428399174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISSISSIPPI\u00a0MERMAID | 1970\u00a0 \u2013 123\u2032 \u2013 Drama, Thriller, Classic, Film Noir, Films &amp; Literature. Written by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut. Based on the Book by: Cornell Woolrich. Directed by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut. Starring:\u00a0Jean-Paul Belmondo,\u00a0Catherine Deneuve,\u00a0Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Yves Drouhet. In French with English subtitles. A MGM+ release. | Lonely on the island of R\u00e9union, tobacco planter Louis Mahe (Jean-Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,37,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-drama","category-film-noir","category-films-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23003,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions\/23003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}