i have slowly been collecting the films available on dvd of both catherine deneuve and francois truffaut. both actress and director have done some stinkers in their time  fortunately mississipi mermaid is not one of them. next to the soft skin and coincidentally staring deneuve sister (the late francoise dorleac) and this would have to be my favourite truffaut film. as well as directing and truffaut also wrote the screenplay. something that always strikes me about truffaut is his almost childlike innocence when presenting a story  one could almost call it naivety. there a scene towards the end of the film where belmondo returns to the apartment in lyon with the remains of the loot. he rings the doorbell and deneuve answers wearing a negligee. in the time it takes belmondo to reach their room from the street and deneuve changes into her dress and puts on her best pair of stockings and shoes and then lies on the bed and pretends she is asleep. it a scene that could almost come from the mind of a child  but that truffaut for you. watching catherine deneuve in her films of the late 60 is indeed a sensory pleasure. she is so extraordinarily beautiful it is almost painful for us to watch. incidentally and for those fans and there are a couple of topless scenes of her in this film  indeed a sinful pleasure. i disagree with previous posters. i see nothing hitchcockian about the film at all. as for the look of it  i love the look of the older film stock used in the 60 . it certainly gives films of this period a unique look. highly recommended for both deneuve and truffaut fans. 
i have slowly been collecting the films available on dvd of both catherine deneuve and francois truffaut. both actress and director have done some stinkers in their time  fortunately mississipi mermaid is not one of them. next to the soft skin and coincidentally staring deneuve sister (the late francoise dorleac) and this would have to be my favourite truffaut film. as well as directing and truffaut also wrote the screenplay. something that always strikes me about truffaut is his almost childlike innocence when presenting a story  one could almost call it naivety. there a scene towards the end of the film where belmondo returns to the apartment in lyon with the remains of the loot. he rings the doorbell and deneuve answers wearing a negligee. in the time it takes belmondo to reach their room from the street and deneuve changes into her dress and puts on her best pair of stockings and shoes and then lies on the bed and pretends she is asleep. it a scene that could almost come from the mind of a child  but that truffaut for you. watching catherine deneuve in her films of the late 60 is indeed a sensory pleasure. she is so extraordinarily beautiful it is almost painful for us to watch. incidentally and for those fans and there are a couple of topless scenes of her in this film  indeed a sinful pleasure. i disagree with previous posters. i see nothing hitchcockian about the film at all. as for the look of it  i love the look of the older film stock used in the 60 . it certainly gives films of this period a unique look. highly recommended for both deneuve and truffaut fans. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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