Mississippi Mermaid (La sirene du Mississippi)

Throwback to when it was romantic to put your wife's face on a cigarette package design.

ryan

François Truffaut has too pure a heart to squeeze even a guilty glee out of portraying hostile relationships.  While the Nouvelle Vague icon can execute a sudden death with the best of them, he never quite reaches a proficiency in confrontation and manipulation that equals…

theriverjordan

“i loved you from the first minute we met. a hundred times i started to tell you. i always stop at the last moment because i’m a coward.” a marriage built on lies, yet their romance is based upon their own desires. a lonely man seeking for his mail-order bride via…

Jackie

i love when truffaut finally got to work with belmondo it was this horny melodrama/crime thriller movie about how catherine deneuve scams a plantation owner out of all his money and the relationship arc has like five different stages and they all work somehow. god it’s so…

nora

                               MILD SPOILERS  This intoxicating, sexually charged portrait of a deeply unhealthy yet utterly compelling co-dependent relationship unfolds its true intentions bit-by-bit as it goes on, revealing an intimate character study hiding there just…

Josh Gillam

"- You are beautiful. When I look at you, it hurts. - Really? Yesterday you said it was a joy. - It is a joy and yet it hurts." It is sort of Truffaut's version of Godard's appropriation of American pulp, which makes it a little different from let's say Shoot the…

Filipe Furtado

i, too would’ve crashed my car if catherine flashed in front of me

réka

Tales of the unexpected, by François Truffaut. A boat arrives on Reunion island. On board is the mail order bride of a wealthy tobacco factory owner. Only she's not the one he ordered. It quickly becomes obvious to the audience, but not to him. What follows is a story of…

Slig001

the greatest artist in cinema history is whoever told jean paul belmondo that he is a small and not a medium

Merkin Muffley