LACMA (Venue Partner)
5905 Wilshire Blvd
323.857.6000
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Mississippi Mermaid
- When
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Friday Jan 15, 2010 (7:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: LACMA is located on Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and Curson avenues—midway between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. From the Santa Monica Freeway (10), take Fairfax Avenue north 2 miles to Wilshire Boulevard.
- Price
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$10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
In his book on Hitchcock, Truffaut comments that "Vertigo unfolds at a deliberate pace, with a contemplative rhythm that contrasts sharply with Hitchcock's other films." Mississippi Mermaid applies an equally dreamlike style to the tale of a wealthy plantation owner on the French Island of Réunion (Belmondo) who becomes so obsessed with his ravishing mail order bride (Deneuve) that he accepts her every duplicity, including his own murder. “So full of lovely, complex things—of unannounced emotions, of ideas, of the memories of other movies (Truffaut's, as well as of those of two of his father figures, Renoir and Hitchcock)—that it defies easy definition and blithely triumphs over what initially appears to be structural schizophrenia. It is the creation of a superior moviemaker who works eccentrically in the classical tradition.”—Vincent Canby, The New York Times.
1969/color/123 min./Scope | Scr/dir: François Truffaut; w/ Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
