1975 · drama · poetic
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Directed by Barbra Streisand2h 6m1975
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Our read: The Mirror Has Two Faces (1975) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal drama · poetic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / poetic, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- surreal
- twisty
- signature
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