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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR
1973
Director
Jess Franco
Starring
Emma Cohen
Robert Woods
Françoise Brion
Howard Vernon
Runtime
82 minutes
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Jess Franco enters the Black Lodge.
Melissa, a young woman living in a large seaside mansion with her father and aunt, decides one day to marry. She rushes home to tell her father the good news, yet after telling him, she returns home later on to discover (through the reflection of a large ominous mirror) that her father has hanged himself. Distraught and heartbroken, she breaks off the marriage and decides to join a touring group of musicians to escape her tragic home. However, as time creeps on, she begins to notice ghostly happenings anytime she stares directly into a mirror, plunging her further into nightmarish conflict with forces from the other side of reality.
A crowning achievement of Jess Franco’s astonishing mid-70’s run, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR remains a fairly classically constructed affair for the director, albeit infused with the sort of cinematic somnambulism that remained signature throughout his entire career. Anticipating moments and scenes that would later appear in the films of David Lynch (LOST HIGHWAY and INLAND EMPIRE, in particular), THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR points to the rarely acknowledged but undeniable influence Franco had over many of today’s greatest and most forward-thinking filmmakers. (Oscarbate Film)
Melissa, a young woman living in a large seaside mansion with her father and aunt, decides one day to marry. She rushes home to tell her father the good news, yet after telling him, she returns home later on to discover (through the reflection of a large ominous mirror) that her father has hanged himself. Distraught and heartbroken, she breaks off the marriage and decides to join a touring group of musicians to escape her tragic home. However, as time creeps on, she begins to notice ghostly happenings anytime she stares directly into a mirror, plunging her further into nightmarish conflict with forces from the other side of reality.
A crowning achievement of Jess Franco’s astonishing mid-70’s run, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR remains a fairly classically constructed affair for the director, albeit infused with the sort of cinematic somnambulism that remained signature throughout his entire career. Anticipating moments and scenes that would later appear in the films of David Lynch (LOST HIGHWAY and INLAND EMPIRE, in particular), THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR points to the rarely acknowledged but undeniable influence Franco had over many of today’s greatest and most forward-thinking filmmakers. (Oscarbate Film)
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