The Mirror Has Two Faces (Streisand, 1996): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6pm
Barbra Streisand’s underappreciated revamping of Le Miroir à deux faces (1958) is part of the 'Woman With a Movie Camera' strand and is introduced by BFI Events Programmer Kimberley Sheehan.
Chicago Reader review:
I haven’t seen the 1958 Andre Cayatte feature this 1996 Barbra Streisand
picture is based on, but given the usual glumness of that
writer-director—a former lawyer and the French equivalent of Stanley
Kramer—I wouldn’t have expected such lightheartedness. Adapted by
Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King) and directed by Streisand,
this is a quirky romantic comedy about two faculty members at Columbia
University—an absentminded math teacher (Jeff Bridges) determined to
have a sexless union and a “romantic literature” teacher (Streisand) who
wants something more. A strange amalgamation of New Age sentiment and
old-fashioned Hollywood glitz, all taking place on the far side of the
moon, it’s kept watchable mainly by the performers—especially Bridges
(in an offbeat departure), Streisand, and Lauren Bacall (as Streisand’s
mother), but also Mimi Rogers, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Brenda
Vaccaro, Elle Macpherson, and Austin Pendleton.
Jonathan Rosenabum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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