Mississippi Mermaid

“The bride came as advertised... with an unadvertised special.”

Louis Mahé (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a tobacco planter on the island of Réunion, has only letters and a photograph to go on when he proposes to a woman in France. The woman who steps off the boat, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), does not look like the picture, and he marries her anyway. François Truffaut sets the wedding against the Indian Ocean and the photograph that no longer matches the woman beside him.