| The Mirror Has Two Faces | | Cast : | Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall | | Director : | Barbra Streisand | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 15, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | June 03, 2003 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), Korean (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 29, 2005 | | Summary | Absolutely tops | Content
 | I'm no particular Barbra Streisand fan, but I absolutely loved this movie. Streisand and Bridges both give fantastic performances but what really sends the movie to the top is the final scene and funnily enough the credits where Streisand and Bridges dance to the song "I've finally found someone". I suppose some critics will say I'm nuts, but I'm thinking of adding this to my top ten favourite films of all time.
BTW folks, "Barbra" has two "a"s, not three. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | Bai Kan Bu Yen | Content
| The above Chinese saying means "after seeing hundred times, you still won't get tired of it." This is how I strongly feel about this film. I've played Barbara's teaching scene again and again, and appreciate every line. I nodded, I smiled, I clapped while listening to her, just like I was at that very class. Rose is surely an ideal image of a professor, with humor, with wit, with nature of warm sharing.
I like Jeff Bridges very much ever since I saw him in "The Fisher King". He deserves more appreciation for his wonderful performance in both of these characters.
There are too many scenes I love about this film. Barbara is such a talented director to give her wonderful touch to those details. Here I'd like to bring up something about her performance which might not be noticeable -- Barbara "holds" tears in her eyes without letting them go. For instance, she saw Barry, whom she turned down his dates, kissing his fiancee with passion. Also the last scene, she has tears in her eyes after hearing Gregory saying that she's beautiful while she's in pajama with her hair messy. It's so true in our real life that we have strong feelings sometimes, yet, don't want to show to others, we then hold the tears in our eyes very hard. They are actually the most touching moments.
To me, this is a movie about people's struggling of "rationality vs. sensibility", and "living in others' eyes vs. being what you are". It gives me high sense of loving sweetness and wisdom.
Thanks, Barbara and Jeff, also the original French script. Great Work of Art !!
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| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | Beautiful Love Story | Content
| If you are one of those few people in the world that thinks there is so much more to love than sex....then this is a love story for you. This is one of my favorite love stories. Another movie, alone the same vein, is "Only The Lonely" starring John Candy. These are both love stories with heart and soul. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 26, 2005 | | Summary | Refreshing take on modern love | Content
| I think a few people here are missing the point that Bridges was attracted to her (in more ways than one) when she was plain...not just after her transformation. This movie was sad/funny/intelligent. With everyone so obsessed these days with physical appearance, I found the twist on their romance to be refreshing.
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| Rating | | | Date | February 13, 2005 | | Summary | UNFUNNY GIRL | Content
| I have been a fan of Barbra Streisand's for as long as I can remember, from the first time she appeared on the Ed Sullivan show singing CRY ME A RIVER through all of her Columbia albums and many of her films. Barbra the director and songwriter, Barbra the producer, and Barbra the star. If any movie has been a vanity fair for Babs, THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES is it. As in the classic FUNNY GIRL, Barbra plays a "plain" woman who can't believe any handsome man (Omar Sharif and now Jeff Bridges) could possibly find her attractive. In all actuality, this is the kind of movie Barbra should have made when she was in her thirties; it seems kind of childish for a mature woman in her early fifties to be so concerned about whether or not she is beautiful. Her makeover at the end is also all about Barbra's personal journey into the realms of looking like a movie star. Including her infamous seventeen inch fingernails. The movie overstays its welcome, too; it's a little too long to sustain a deep conviction to the film. Barbra as always is a wonderful actress, but this role she's done too many times, and frankly I didn't truly believe in her as much as I did say in FUNNY GIRL or THE WAY WE WERE. Jeff Bridges is a marvelous actor, but he overdoes it in this role, trying hard to match his superstar co-star but forgetting a more controlled performance would have been a better match. Lauren Bacall who lost her supporting actress Oscar to Juliette Binoche (ENGLISH PATIENT) brings the movie her star presence, but it's a performance that could have been done by any actress and would have been just as effective. Pierce Brosnan in a rather small role effuses his international charm in a poorly conceived role. George Segal and Brenda Vaccarro are also wasted in brief appearances, although Segal who once starred with Babs in THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT makes a game effort. Perhaps the best performance in the film belongs to Mimi Rogers, the ex Mrs. Tom Cruise, whose portrayal of Babs' hedonistic and unfulfilled sister gives the movie a certain dark edge. Marvin Hamlisch's 1950ish sounding score is also out of place; even though the movie tries to be like one of those PILLOW TALK type of films, it's 1990s atmosphere and look make the score anachronistic. It was nice hearing such great songs as TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS and YOU DON'T KNOW ME though.
It's ironic that this was Barbra's last film until the recent MEET THE FOCKERS, in which she plays a mother, and not someone who's trying to convince everyone how lovely she is. Hopefully if Barbra makes more movies (and she should--she is a superstar), she'll play on her comic and dramatic abilities and accept the fact that her fans think she's beautiful and we don't want to have to keep telling her so!!!! |
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