 Similarly, Jay Beck writes

"McCabe & Mrs. Miller" represents the full-scale launch of the practice of overlapping dialogue in Altman's cinema.The visual and acoustic strategies in the film avoid foregrounding the main characters in the narrative and the audience has to work to follow the story, or stories, as they unfold.Other than the music occurring in the ordinary life of Presbyterian Church, the only music for the film is from three songs composed and performed by Leonard Cohen, a Canadian poet who had released his first album of songs in 1967.