If you loved Shoot the Piano Player, try Mississippi Mermaid

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Shoot the Piano Player

1960 · dir. François Truffaut

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Both films are directed by François Truffaut, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Shoot the Piano Player, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Mississippi Mermaid is

Réunion island summer air thick with tobacco scent a lone letter. A mismatched bride arrives at his plantation. Truffaut helms a nuanced romance.

If you loved Shoot the Piano Player, try Mississippi Mermaid

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What Mississippi Mermaid is

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If you loved Shoot the Piano Player, try Mississippi Mermaid

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What they share

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