I really liked this movie but then I enjoy many of the romantic comedies from the late 1960's and early 1970's that sort of explore relationships and challenge sexual and social mores. This is one of those but very easy to watch and enjoy, until a particular scene that is. And I'm not sure I'd watch it again.
I especially enjoyed watch Kris Kristofferson play Elmo Cole, Nina's adorable love interest following her divorce from Blume. Blume attempts to triangulate himself with Elmo to gain access to his ex wife, a super gross move that is very real life and kind of scary, too.
For the viewer it's satisfying to see the triangulation because Kristofferson is just gorgeous and adorable as Cole, but it's also a bit ominous the way Cole is being used; I'm not sure viewers who haven't been through that personally would recognize it- I don't think Blume is so smitten by Cole in an innocent way; he's using him for access to Nina.
Maybe it's good that this wasn't just a "light-hearted" look at a couple post divorce; it transcends much other similar fare in that way. . .
Throughout the movie we may see Blume as lovelorn, remorseful, etc. we may see Elmo as just a cute guy who doesn't take anything too seriously, and see Nina as a woman whose independence is budding, until one scene which picks up on the ickyness of Blume's forced triangulation and reveals to the viewer, yeah; it's just not that Elmo Cole is so likable; Blume really is that controlling and predatory.
Following that scene we can see Elmo is more than just a pretty face and that he really loved and cared for Nina.
Don't want to give too much away, but I'd have preferred a different ending. I think this film successfully relays that: women's movement or not, women still don't really have power over our own lives in the way men do.
If you're a woman who has been abused or stalked by an ex lover, which really isn't "funny" at all, you may not find this to your liking- not that it focuses so much on that, but it's just a lot of the film is Blume trying to regain access to Nina through Cole and there is a point where it goes from light-hearted to something more dark.
I especially enjoyed watch Kris Kristofferson play Elmo Cole, Nina's adorable love interest following her divorce from Blume. Blume attempts to triangulate himself with Elmo to gain access to his ex wife, a super gross move that is very real life and kind of scary, too.
For the viewer it's satisfying to see the triangulation because Kristofferson is just gorgeous and adorable as Cole, but it's also a bit ominous the way Cole is being used; I'm not sure viewers who haven't been through that personally would recognize it- I don't think Blume is so smitten by Cole in an innocent way; he's using him for access to Nina.
Maybe it's good that this wasn't just a "light-hearted" look at a couple post divorce; it transcends much other similar fare in that way. . .
Throughout the movie we may see Blume as lovelorn, remorseful, etc. we may see Elmo as just a cute guy who doesn't take anything too seriously, and see Nina as a woman whose independence is budding, until one scene which picks up on the ickyness of Blume's forced triangulation and reveals to the viewer, yeah; it's just not that Elmo Cole is so likable; Blume really is that controlling and predatory.
Following that scene we can see Elmo is more than just a pretty face and that he really loved and cared for Nina.
Don't want to give too much away, but I'd have preferred a different ending. I think this film successfully relays that: women's movement or not, women still don't really have power over our own lives in the way men do.
If you're a woman who has been abused or stalked by an ex lover, which really isn't "funny" at all, you may not find this to your liking- not that it focuses so much on that, but it's just a lot of the film is Blume trying to regain access to Nina through Cole and there is a point where it goes from light-hearted to something more dark.