The announcement
that Barbra Streisand has signed a directing deal with Los Angeles-based
sales and financing outfit Aldamisa International for several (as yet undetermined)
projects is great news for Streisand
fans and film fans as well. Barbra has proven herself to be a gifted director.
In the three films she has directed (Yentl,
The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, she has shown
herself to be a master of the look and the emotion of a story. Yentl lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman
told me that Barbra “knew the palette she wanted” for that movie, and indeed
many of the scenes could have been created by a European master.
Barbra has
shown herself to be equally adept at sweeping romantic melodrama and harrowing
tragedy (think of the rape scene in Tides).
She was also able to balance nicely the comic and dramatic elements of The Mirror Has Two Faces.
I doubt
there’s any genre Barbra couldn’t conquer if she set he mind to it, but she is
unquestionably drawn to romantic stories. I hope she continues to be (despite
the sometime sniping of straight male critics), because there are a lot of
movies left in Barbra Streisand and a lot of romantic stories left for her to tell.
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