As she phones him to set them up, she tries to warn him that she’s not exactly…bangable. That is to say, he knows that the erudite woman is not, generally speaking, synonymous with being “hot.” Even so, Rose is not the one to respond to the ad (she’s got better things to do, like watching It Happened One Night on repeat), so much as her more beautiful sister, Claire (Mimi Rogers, Tom Cruise survivor). So determined is he to ensure that he won’t be allured by the physical attributes of his potential “mate” (a primal word indeed) after losing his cool at a book reading he’s giving upon encountering his ex, he decides to put an ad out in the paper that will captivate a particular audience. No, instead Rose is “chosen” by fellow Columbia professor Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) precisely because he knows he will never see her as attractive, therefore not be hindered by the waste of time consequences that come with a sexual appetite. For starters, unlike past films including Funny Girl, The Owl and the Pussycat and What’s Up, Doc?, there isn’t even any attempt at making Rose Morgan come across as an “offbeat” beauty that just needs the right man to notice it. The Mirror Has Two Faces, based on the 1958 French comedy Le Miror a Deux Faces, was Barbra Streisand's third project as a director she also served as co-producer and helped compose the film's theme song, I Finally Found Someone.Never given quite enough credit for the very fact that it was directed by a woman (where was all this fanfare in ’96? Funneled into 2017’s Lady Bird, apparently), The Mirror Has Two Faces is arguably Barbra Streisand’s unsung masterpiece for manifold reasons. She goes on a diet, starts working out, changes her hairstyle, learns a few makeup tricks, and revamps her wardrobe, and by the time Gregory returns, he discovers that there's a very different woman in the twin bed next to his own. Gregory leaves on a lecture tour shortly afterward, and after Hannah reassures a heartbroken Rose that she was beautiful as a child, Rose goes on a crash course in self improvement. However, Rose's affection for Gregory makes it difficult for her to stop with a handshake, and one night she puts on her best nightgown and attempts to seduce her husband, much to Gregory's annoyance and confusion. While Rose is very much attracted to the handsome mathematician, the prospect of spending the rest of her life either alone or with Hannah seems far worse than a marriage without passion, and she agrees to his proposal. Gregory is so taken with Rose that he proposes marriage, but under the condition that theirs be strictly a meeting of the minds, without sexual relations. One day, Gregory passes by Rose's lecture hall as she discusses the role of chaste love in literature, and he's intrigued he takes her out on a date and is impressed by Rose's quick wit and broad range of knowledge.
#THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES SERIES#
Gregory Larkin ( Jeff Bridges) teaches mathematics at the same school as Rose, and he has come to the conclusion that sex serves no purpose but to complicate relationships between men and women after a series of disastrous romantic affairs, Gregory is looking for an intellectual relationship with a woman - and nothing more. Rose got the brains in her family, but her sister Claire ( Mimi Rogers) got the good looks, and as Claire prepares for her wedding to Alex (Pierce Brosnon), Rose can't help but despair over the blank page that is her love life, especially since she's long had a crush on Alex. Rose Morgan ( Barbra Streisand) is a plain and pudgy middle-aged college English professor who shares a house with her mother, Hannah ( Lauren Bacall). In this romantic comedy-drama, a couple learns that the relationship between the mind and the body can take many different forms.
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