19 August 2009

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

I was in a bad mood when I went to see this movie because we were expecting to see Objectified [like it said on the marquis], but we found that this Truffaut movie was playing instead. It looks like someone at the Northwest Film Forum should stop listening to DC hardcore and learn to change signs so that he doesn't ruin people's evenings with French films. For those of you who don't go to the NWFF, there is a guy there who only wears a Bad Brains t-shirt and books hardcore shows at the theater. Whatever.

So we watched Mississippi Masala Mermaid and guess what? Viewing it reinforced my theory that I'd already seen the handful of enjoyable Truffaut movies. Seeing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve [two of France's finest actors] co-star together was the equivalent of seeing Kate and Leo [two of our finest actors] on screen, so that was exciting.

The movie itself was very melodramatic, gushy, mushy, patriarchal, misogynistic, and generally irksome. JP is hopelessly in love with Catherine even after she deceives him, steals from him, nearly has him imprisoned, and tries to kill him. L'amour is blind, I guess. Gross!

There's one thing I really loved about this movie: Catherine has just about the best bee hive hairdos -- even better than Kate from the B-52s.


1/5 pizzas

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  1. CarmelAugust 19, 2009 at 8:13 PM

    This movie was actually the inspiration for http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ykLXGVRNS_Y/SczpT3BPPrI/AAAAAAAABfo/h6pCXSnQo3Q/s400/mermaids-for-web.jpg

    and

    http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/csdaily/csdart/images/2006-10-Oct/Little_Mermaid--The_metaphor_is_obvious.jpg

    so you know, there's always that to think about. The Little Mississippi Mermaids in Manhattan. Staring J-Lo, your role model. Written by David Wain. Of the TV show Wayne's World.

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  2. Miles DAugust 20, 2009 at 5:51 PM

    you know what's stupid? french movies. know what's retarded? hardcore. Stay away from this theater lest you catch trisomy 21 from Audrey Tatou.

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