For a comedy, it's not all that comedic. Or romantic, for that matter. There are lots of twos and roads, though, so that's something. I'm not criticizing her looks, but Audrey Hepburn is 38 here playing someone who's apparently in her early 20s. In the flashbacks, at least. Don't get me wrong, she looks great, but you can tell that she's trying a little bit too hard. She doesn't have that youthful naivety from Sabrina anymore. She's too elegant. Mostly, the movie's not funny though.

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The stylish opening credits and Henry Mancini's score held the promise of something better, but in the end, this comes off like a badly-dated precursor to Little Miss Sunshine, a road-movie with unbearably quirky characters and tedious running gags that ends up both gooey and cynical.

#958

Hepburn and Finney are both terrific as they play the members of the couple on the various spectrum stops between smitten and hostile. They're especially good with the bits of Raphael%u2019s screenplay that are sharp enough to draw blood, exchanging verbal blows like they're in an especially nasty-minded classic screwball comedy. Not every twist of the relationship is compelling but overall the film represents a fascinating survey of the treacherous contours of a marriage.

Great dialogue, interesting time-shifting plot progression, and just beautiful to look at. A must for any Hepburn fan.

A cult movie for the longest time, but no violence, horror, or weird people like you've come to expect from movies with that label. The synopsis makes it sound ordinary, but it's really not; it's a unique tale of two people falling in love, then trying to make their marriage work through the trials of the years. Like many of the works of Robert Benton, this movie works largely because there's no baloney here

A movie completely made by the two stars. A bit hokey and Hollywoodish in the first half (thanks to writer and director); but the rest more than makes up for it. When Finney and Hepburn exchange "pleasantries" in the final moments, you know you've just seen something head-changing.

# 886

It shows both the ups and downs of marriage, in a very clever multi-threaded flashback structure. Skipping freely over time from road trip to road trip allows Donen to draw parallels, establish patterns, point out coincidences and set up amusing juxtapositions. And he's not afraid to undercut a sweet recapitualtion by immediately following it with another harsh confrontation. Finney and Hepburn are both terrific in their exchanges.

Pretty enjoyable, sometimes insightful mix of comedy and drama about a turbulent relationship. Besides the obvious appeal of the leads the editing is the key to making the film work, providing some enjoyable transitions and doing well to contrast expectations with reality and exposing many foibles in human relationships.

Even if you only look at certain key elements; the script, acting, observations on relationships and similar themes, you still have a great movie, but from my subjective standpoint, it's nothing that I haven't seen done more poignantly in other films by, say, Woody Allen, Bergman, Cassavettes, and so on. But then you have the editing and story structure, used not just to keep things interesting but also to develop characters uniquely and to compare and contrast different stages of relationships.

A true life adult love story with all its ups and downs. Beautiful Paris cinematography. Hepburn and Finney are a sexy, funny, charming paring. Sparkling dialogue - even when they swear at each other. A 60s milestone. I saw this when I was 13 instead of the sold-out "The Sound of Music", and am I glad for that decision!

Interesting film, edited in different ways, but for me, Albert Finney's character was quite irritating and I didn't enjoy seeing him get to run around grabbing hold of Audrey Hepburn. The days of Audrey having long hair and looking 18 and then having short hair and looking 30 were gone by 1967, but they still tried it. It was a good role choice by Audrey because it was very different to her usual sweet and innocent characters.

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I love you, Audrey Hepburn.