Sandy Dennis is often very touching, the boy is good in a fey way and there are some nice portraits of Canada's more conventional citizenry.

the psychodrama that emerges shows a woman lost in the cracks between the staid bourgeois respectability of her mother's generation, and the new freedoms of the '60s.

It's a cold, ugly and meandering business.

Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise Altman's later masterpieces.