Blume in Love

Warner. Director Paul Mazursky; Producer Paul Mazursky; Screenplay Paul Mazursky; Camera Bruce Surtees; Editor Donn Cambern; Music Bill Conti; Art Director Pato Guzman

George Segal
Susan Anspach
Kris Kristofferson
Marsha Mason
Shelley Winters
Paul Mazursky

Blume in Love is a technically well made, but dramatically distended comedy-drama starring George Segal as a man determined to win back the affections of Susan Anspach, the wife who divorced him for infidelity. Needless time-juggling flashback, indulgent writing, lazy structure, and intrusive and pretentious social commentary blunt some fine performances which occasionally inject life into the plot.

It takes Segal 115 minutes to win back Anspach's affections, the road being littered with relentless footage from Venice, Italy, and lots of cutesy sidebar micro-vignette which is lingeringly set up only for a fast cut from some limp gag line. There are a few good laughs, a handful of chuckles, several smiles, and a ton of songs, some by Kris Kristofferson who is starred as Anspach's dropout lover.

(Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1973. Running time: 115 MIN.

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