Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

Directed by François Truffaut · Cinematography by Denys Clerval

R123 min64 frames

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Mississippi Mermaid (1969) movie still: medium — A man and a woman stand close together in a forest covered with light snow. Snowflakes fall between… — Mississippi Mermaid (1969) — © Produzioni Associate Delphos, Les Films du Carrosse

Mississippi Mermaid (1969) movie still: medium — A man and woman sit together in a booth at a restaurant with foliage behind them. The woman holds a… — Mississippi Mermaid (1969) — © Produzioni Associate Delphos, Les Films du Carrosse

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What is Mississippi Mermaid about?

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.

Mississippi Mermaid is a 1969 romantic crime drama film written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish, the film follows a tobacco planter on the island of Réunion who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives, it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway.

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What does the cinematography of Mississippi Mermaid look like?

Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of Mississippi Mermaid leans on medium shots (55% of the sample) and wide compositions (23%). Cinematographer Denys Clerval keeps 58% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

What is the color palette of Mississippi Mermaid?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Mississippi Mermaid (1969) are #52544d, #31322f, #d6d4ce, #47382d, #f5f4f2, #0d0e0c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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