For a movie about two men in love with the same woman to begin with those two men initially meeting one another at a screening of Jules and Jim seems a bit ill-advised, if only because of the comparison it invites. This beginning, though, gives only a tiny taste of the embarrassments to come. In the interest of unrelenting entertainment, writer-director Paul Mazursky sugars and spices every incident and every character to the point where not one natural, plausible, or palatable moment emerges. (Well, there may be one or two.) The plot traverses the entire Seventies and as many fads and fashions of the period as possible. And characteristic of Mazursky, the large number of bases he touches, or comes close to touching, allows him to affect an air of knowingness without ever having to reveal anything of what he actually knows. With Michael Ontkean, Ray Sharkey, and Margot Kidder. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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