The relationship of a couple (Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney), from the youthful idyll of their love affair and early years of marriage through the stages of disillusion to the brink of collapse, is told in a series of sometimes confusing flashbacks and flash-forwards. Directed by Stanley Donen with his customary flair, the comedy drama is played out in glossy French locations as the couple make a series of road trips across the country over a period of a dozen years. Frederic Raphael's Oscar-nominated screenplay is a quintessentially Swinging Sixties piece, reflecting both the strengths and weakness of the period - relentlessly trendy and "chattering-class" fashionable yet, at times, bitterly honest and painful. Hepburn (then aged 37) effortlessly ages backwards to a young student and, freed from her Givenchy-clad image, evinces a range of emotions with controlled subtlety and incisiveness. Finney is excellent, and there's a memorable cameo from Eleanor Bron. Highly recommended.

On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.