Adventures in Gyno-Land

JMO, it's Altman. Altman's movies have layers and this one is very layered. I had to watch it a few times, years apart, for it to sink in for me. But it's all Altman. I like his stuff much better than Woody Allen's -- who I think tires to do the same thing, but everyone ends up as neurotic as Allen (However this neurotics worked VERY well in Allen's work 'Blue Jasmine'). Altman's ensembles don't interact in that way, although they do revolve around a character, town, family or genre with wacky but real to wacky outcomes.

This reminds me of an earlier work of Altman's I found more outrageous and funnier, "A Wedding". While this happens around a male Gyno, it is about spoiled well to do, women and their inadequacies. The male gyno is the "center point", so to speak to bring it all together, while his 'well to do' life is falling apart.

I didn't like all the golf pro jazz, I think the film could have carried on without it as the gyno would have been more interesting if he interacted with one of his more 'stable' patients, as that was the underlying issue in the film.

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