Synopsis
On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
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Cast
- Audrey HepburnJoanna Wallace
- Albert FinneyMark Wallace
- Georges DescrièresDavid
- Claude DauphinMaurice Dalbret
- Nadia GrayFrançoise Dalbret
- Jacqueline BissetJackie
- Eleanor BronCathy Manchester
- William DanielsHoward Manchester
- Gabrielle MiddletonRuth Manchester
- Judy CornwellPat
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
Arguably Stanley Donen's masterpiece, and undoubtedly one of the most stylistically influential films of the 60s. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
A Hollywood-style romance between beautiful people, and an honest story about recognizable human beings. - 100
Austin Chronicle
Certainly one of the very best films in each of Donen and Hepburn's careers, this devastatingly lovely remnant of Hollywood's anything-goes Sixties (with a script by Frederic Raphael) tells the story of a marriage by showing a couple over the course of successive trips to the south of France. - 83
The A.V. Club
The film's surface is made up of familiar '60s romantic-comedy elements, from Hepburn's haute wardrobe to the Henry Mancini score to the breezy interaction between the stars. They banter, bicker, and make up with witty repartee. It's what movie love is supposed to look like, which makes it all the more heartbreaking to know that it's destined to sour. - 80
CineVue
The work bears the burden of Classical Hollywood, making it not only a film about two people decoupling, but a striking example of forms in combat, struggling for a dominant voice. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Donen's direction here is a trifle trendy and frantic, with sometimes jarring results. - 63
LarsenOnFilm
As for the two leads, they have charm to spare, and it’s startling to see Hepburn bring bitterness to bear on her trademark wit, but the relationship and all its foibles still feel prescribed by the overall structure, not borne of real life. - 60
The New York Times
There are some precious moments of romantic charm in this bitter account of domestic discord amid surroundings that should inspire nothing but delight. And so one must seize upon them for the entertainment that is to be had, and endure the tedium of much of the picture.
