Blume in Love

Blume in Love

Director: Paul Mazursky Cast: George Segal
George Segal
, Susan Anspach
Susan Anspach
, Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
, Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason
Paul Mazursky
Blume in Love

Blume in Love

Director: Paul Mazursky Cast: George Segal
George Segal
, Susan Anspach
Susan Anspach
, Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
, Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason
Paul Mazursky

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Overview

In the Los Angeles of yoga, therapy, and well-off liberals, a divorcé decides that his ex-wife is the love of his life in Paul Mazursky's romantic comedy. Beverly Hills divorce lawyer Stephen Blume (George Segal) becomes his own client when his social worker wife Nina (Susan Anspach) throws him out for sleeping with his secretary. Only then does Blume realize that he can't live without Nina, even though she seems fine without him, and he has a new sex partner in divorcée Arlene (Marsha Mason). So what does he do to win Nina back? Befriend her laid-back musician beau, Elmo (Kris Kristofferson), show up at her house with breakfast bagels, eavesdrop on her therapy sessions, and forcibly impregnate her, of course. Banished to their former honeymoon site in Venice, Italy while Nina thinks things over, Blume reflects on his past and his obsession, as he dreamily hopes for the best. Cutting between Blume's musings on love and loss in Venice's Piazza San Marco and the events in L.A. that brought him there, Mazursky humorously yet sharply dissects the complications of marriage in the let-it-all-hang-out Me Decade of the 1970s. Blume and Nina face the same dilemma as the couples in Mazursky's 1969 hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: how to mesh traditional vows with the new freedom and its temptations. In this case, it takes a divorce to convince the solipsistic Blume that the woman he wants most is his own wife. Considered by some critics one of the decade's best interrogations of contemporary coupledom, Blume in Love astutely captured the absurdity of Blume's self-involved romantic quest, while slyly celebrating the operatic spirit of love that drives him.

Product Details

Release Date: 02/21/2017
UPC: 0888574474522
Original Release: 1973
Rating: R
Source: Warner Archives
Language: English
Time: 1:55:00
Sales rank: 41,951

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
George Segal Stephen Blume
Susan Anspach Nina Blume
Kris Kristofferson Elmo Cole
Marsha Mason Arlene
Shelley Winters Mrs. Cramer
Donald Muhich Analyst
Paul Mazursky Blume's Partner
Annazette Chase Gloria
Shelley Morrison Mrs. Greco
Erin O'Reilly Cindy
Bill Conti Composer

Technical Credits
Paul Mazursky Producer,Director,Screenwriter
Pato Guzman Producer
Arthur Piantadosi Sound/Sound Designer
Al Overton Jr. Sound/Sound Designer
Tony Ray Producer
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