Though the opening of Catherine Deneuve’s latest film, “The Truth,” has been postponed, many of her most
celebrated movies are available to stream on the Criterion Channel. In one of the best of them, François
Truffaut’s macabre thriller “Mississippi Mermaid” (above), from 1969, she plays a mail-order bride who
shows up at the Réunion Island estate of a wealthy planter ( Jean-Paul Belmondo) with designs on his money.
Truffaut transforms the crime drama into a desperate romance and a portrait of French social dysfunction.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, New York City museums, galleries, theatres,
music venues, cinemas, and restaurants have closed. Here’s a selection of culture to be found online and streaming.
