There's a sort of protoplasmic scum over the image that makes everything appear somewhat blunted or blurred, symbolic perhaps of the altered state of consciousness you would need to be in to enjoy this broad burlesque of the marriage rite. Watching this movie is like being stone-cold at a party …
Alan Rudolph appears to be very much the dutiful protégé of Robert Altman, his producer, with this multi-character merry-go-round situated in the "city of the one-night stands." One has the feeling that the characters have been squashed ruthlessly in order to fit them into Rudolph's mosaic style and his reductionist …