At 8 p.m. on April 26, Hong Kong's Culture Club Gallery will screen another great movie by François Truffaut. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve.

La Sirène du Mississipi (1969) is adapted from the 1947 William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) novel Waltz into Darkness. This time, Truffaut juggles a Hitchcockian suspense-thriller with deepening sexual obsession. Louis (Belmondo) owns a tobacco plantation and cigarette factory on Réunion Island, but it's lonely work so he sends for a mail-order bride.

Much to his surprise, beautiful, young Julie Roussel (Deneuve) arrives by ship (the Mississippi Mermaid of the title). Louis quickly falls for Julie, while discovering....

According to film critic Edward Guthmann, “Truffaut tells his story with terrific dispatch, as if thrilled by its possibilities and unable to wait to share his enthusiasm.... The result is a cool combo of film noir, star vehicle and picaresque romance. It's vintage Truffaut and a great way to encounter one of cinema's true masters.”