Word: mermaids
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...Queen Elizabeth and lunch with President Georges Pompidou, the imperial couple's routine is not markedly different from those that 1,300,000 other Japanese will have followed before the end of this year. The two travelers and their entourage of 34 will visit Notre Dame, see the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor and ride a steamer along the Rhine to gaze at the Lorelei rocks. At Buckingham Palace, Hirohito might show his Empress the bedroom where, 50 years ago, King George V padded in wearing carpet slippers and suspenders, and boomed: "Everything satisfactory...
...however much we may love him, demonstrates the impossibility of our affection once and for all in his new film. He dashes not only the small hopes left to us by the other Doinel pictures, but also those allowed by Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player and Mississippi Mermaid. We should have known it was coming, for our adoration of this director has always been based on our sense of his understanding that love is not sweet, simple and easy no matter what its appearances. Embracing in a lobby or a park or a church will solve nothing...
...Mermaid. Francois Truffaut's two films between last year's Stolen Kisses and the yet-to-be-released Domicile Conjugale are somewhat difficult and troubling works...
...Missisippi Mermaid Truffaut once again explores the symbiotic relationship between love and death. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a plantation owner on the island of Reunion who sends for a mail-order bride (Catherine Deneuve), only to discover that the bride intends to take his money and possibly his life. As in Stolen Kisses, the characters' passions are desperate and often haplessly pathetic...
...United Artists, who somehow saw fit to cut twenty minutes from. Truffaut's version for its American release. Still, a lot of the good is intact, and so are the film's intriguing references to Psycho, Shoot the Piano Player and the works of Jean Renoir, to whom Mississippi Mermaid is dedicated...