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Pathology of Obsession. Truffaut dedicates the film to his idol, Jean Renoir, and The Mississippi Mermaid begins with scenes from Renoir's 1938 masterpiece La Marseillaise. There are many more affinities here, though, with the work of another Truffaut deity, Alfred Hitchcock. As Julie, Catherine Deneuve has all the frosty, mysterious elegance of such typical Hitchcock heroines as Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly. Jean-Paul Belmondo, as Louis, has the distinctively empathetic star quality that Hitchcock has always favored in his leading...
...grow up from childhood to maturity in her rendition of the Collins song, My Father. She began by recounting with youthful innocence that "my father always promised us that we would live in France." She recreated her dream of "boating on the Seine," and led one's thoughts to Renoir and his velvety impressions of summer days and the sparkling glint of light on the river's water. Later, her voice grew mellow and wise as she sang "the colors of my father's dreams faded" and the audience could look back with her in knowing retrospect, as Gene Taylor...
...valued at $25) in 1926, and remained a generous benefactor till his death in September at the age of 76. In his will Tannahill made his personal choices public by giving his favorite museum a last and most munificent gift: his multimillion-dollar private collection, including a life-size Renoir nude, seven Cezanne oils, five major Picassos and an important collection of African sculpture...
...LIKE RENOIR'S other idealistic heroes Jurieu carries away in his death everybody's ideal aspirations. Because he acts explicitly from the deep passions the others can't sustain, his death carries more weight than those of Renoir's earlier heroes. The aristocrats agree to call it an accident; the speeches and polite conduct that cover his death seem more artificial than ever...
...take his murder seriously the characters remove all ideal depth from life. They dedicate themselves to a world of dark confusion, textures of broken light and shadow without order, violent emotional events with scant meaning. In thus interpreting the continuity of social process and order after individual death, Renoir finally recognizes the seriousness of his material. His fluid and continuous relationships between men, his heroes' deaths at the hands of society are given the atmosphere of horror they deserve. Renoir is morally engaged in Rules of the Game as in few other films...