As he does throughout the movie, Münch drops us into the moment without a setup. A scene or two later, Frances goes up for a balloon ride with Bob, her old beau (and Betty’s husband), who is played by Seymour Cassel. But that’s a small defect in the face of so many exemplary virtues, not the least of which is a firm grasp of where people are at in their lives at any given moment, how they measure themselves against their own ideal self-images, how their unfulfilled needs and desires plague their lives. The talk gets a little too declarative, less genuinely conversational than it might be, as it does in a lot of Sleepy Time Gal. The unspoken rivalry between the goodly wife Betty and the more unsettled Frances dissolves into the warmth of instant rapport. The emotional tone is very precise: two middle-aged women, respective wife and former mistress of a well-loved man, sitting on the bed of a comfy, low-ceilinged room at the end of a sunny fall day, in an atmosphere of homey comfort. In fact, there’s a nice moment where Betty (Peggy Gormley), a woman with a bountiful smile and a lovely mass of tangled, frizzy hair, prescribes quilting to Jacqueline Bisset’s Frances as a path to inner peace.
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