Blume in Love Reviews

Sympathetic but self-indulgent masculine version of Mazursky's AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, a few years later. Segal is splendid as the lovesick lawyer who lusts after his ex, Anspach, who has taken up with Kristofferson. Mason is formidable as a woman waiting for divorced men. Mazursky, working without Larry Tucker for the first time, lets the picture get away from him a few times and does not edit with as tight an eye as for his previous films. His jaundiced look at love in California allows him to have some fun satirizing early 1970s types like Gottlieb (the bass player in the Limelighters group) as a guru and Denison as a Yoga leader. Winters is hysterical in a small role as a wife trying to decide whether or not to divorce her lecherous husband. Mazursky gave himself a role as Segal's partner which may explan moments when film feels unfocused.