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Overview

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Director:
François Truffaut
Writers:
François Truffaut (dialogue)
François Truffaut (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 June 1969 (France) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry her. He only knows her by mail... more | add synopsis
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Indie Roundup: 'New Orleans Mon Amour,' Box Office Ytd
 (From Cinematical. 8 July 2009, 7:02 PM, PDT)

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Cast

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Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Louis Mahé

Catherine Deneuve ... Julie Roussel / Marion Vergano
Nelly Borgeaud ... Berthe
Martine Ferrière ... Landlady
Marcel Berbert ... Jardine
Yves Drouhet ... Detective
Michel Bouquet ... Camolli
Roland Thénot ... Richard
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La mia droga si chiama Julie (Italy)
Mississippi Mermaid (USA)
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Runtime:
123 min
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:12 | Canada:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:12 (re-rating)

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The film is dedicated to Jean Renoir. more
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References Deadly Is the Female (1950) more

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Beyond irritating, 10 May 2009
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Author: gabridl from Planet X

I'm trying to find something of value here. The best I can muster is that Truffaut wanted to make a movie as tedious, painful, puerile, annoying, illogical, and brainless as the experience of being in love. If that was his goal, then he succeeded, but the solution to his exercise is really a drag to watch.

There is one scene that screams for a spoof: Belmondo compares the features of Deneuve's face to the features in a landscape . All I could think the whole time was "glacier," "ice floe," "two lonely fishermen wearing Army surplus on a frozen lake in Minnesota."

The only other point of interest was the resurrection of Buffoon's theory of climatic determinism. The tropics are presented as paradise, and things get progressively worse as they get colder, hell being Calvinist French Switzerland. That was kind of funny.

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