Blume in Love
Director: Paul Mazursky
Year Released: 1973
Rating: 3.0
L'amour fou, Swinging Seventies Style. Divorce attorney Stephen Blume (George Segal) cheats on his wife (Susan Anspach) with his secretary; afterwards, his understandably upset wife divorces him and starts a relationship with an impossibly kind drifter (Kris Kristofferson), but batty ol' Blume keeps chasing after her. The juggled storyline, which goes back and forth to the past and present rather quickly, is not a distraction, as it more or less mirrors Blume's rattled mental state, and Segal himself is completely convincing as a man so madly in love he can barely function - another nice touch is making the Kristofferson character a softie (until he has to punch somebody). I'm bothered by the notion that Blume has to force himself on his ex-wife (and impregnate her) in order for her to go back with him, but the overall point of the picture is that you shouldn't mess up something so impossibly right (a slap in the face of '70s sexual mores).
