Two for the Road

1967

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 14631 14.6K

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Plot summary

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


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Audrey Hepburn as Joanna Wallace
Albert Finney as Mark Wallace
William Daniels as Howard Manchester
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Reviewed by MartinHafer 6 / 10

A mixed bag

This is a difficult film to review because there was quite a bit to like about the film but the overall experience wasn't especially enjoyable or satisfying. On the plus side, this film sports some of the best location filming of the 1960s. The French countryside and beaches are simply beautiful and this experience is strongly heightened by Henry Mancini's delightful score. According to IMDb, Mancini liked this best of all his many famous scores and I would agree that it is superb--even better than many of his more famous films (such as HATARI!, CHARADE and THE PINK PANTHER). That's because although no one song stands out in your head like it does in these other movies, the overall score is just perfect for the film from start to finish.

As for the film, there is a lot to like as well, but for me the hip and then modern aspects of the couple's love life disappointed me. Sure, in some ways perhaps this was more realistic than a "happily ever after" type film, but the gritty realism and sadness of the film really turned me off. I guess I really am a sentimental guy down deep.

The movie is about the love life and marriage of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. It shows how their love evolved and grew cold over the years through a long series of flashbacks to each time they went to the French countryside for vacation. At first they are madly in love and later they grow very distant and even have affairs. Seeing Hepburn sleeping with Finney after just meeting was certainly in line with 60s sensibilities as were their affairs, but I just didn't like it. Much of this is because of Hepburn's rather 'virginal' persona in films. In addition, while Finney's persona is far less virginal by 1967 (having starred in films such as Saturday NIGHT AND Sunday MORNING and TOM JONES), his character came off too often as cruel and easy to hate. Frankly, I could easily see why Hepburn's character would cheat on him, though for the life of me I couldn't see why she stayed. By the end of the film it seemed as if the two stayed together more out of habit than anything else--making the whole thing seem like a bit of a downer. If you are looking for a romance, look a bit further as this seemed more like THE WAR OF THE ROSES than anything romantic.

A final note, if you are into Freudian imagery or psychology, then this is an interesting film. Director Donen deliberately used a lot of phallic references. One was not at all subtle and the characters even commented on this (as the train whizzed past). Another, a bit more subtle, involved Finney offering Hepburn a banana. Additionally, the family who traveled with them during one part of the movie kept spouting psychobabble right and left and it was funny to see what totally permissive parenting results in with their child.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

adult relationship

Workaholic architect Mark Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife Jo (Audrey Hepburn) are unhappily married. The movie flashes backwards and forwards throughout their decade long relationship. They first met on the boat in France when he was backpacking and she was with a girls singing group. While everybody else gets chicken pox, Jo is immune and hitchhikes with Mark. In the present, they drive south to Saint-Tropez and struggle to maintain their crumbling relationship as they recall their past journeys.

I wish the movie catches the couple fighting in the present day. They have essentially given up and leaves the movie with a depressed feeling. It never really shakes that sense of depression. They need to fight because at least that means that they still care. The overall sense is that they stop caring and that's not a great starting point. The two leads are wonderful and this is a very adult relationship.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

In Jigsaw Puzzle Style

Two For The Road was the last and least of the films that Audrey Hepburn did with Stanley Donen. It's a matter of taste, but I don't think it is anywhere as good as either Funny Face or Charade.

The film is the story of the marriage of Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn told in jigsaw puzzle style, disjointed at different select times of their marriage and what they go through. You date it by the different hairstyles that Audrey Hepburn has and by the various cars that they drive. They're always on the road and if you know from cars and from women's hairstyle trends than you can follow the film a whole lot easier. Me, I'm not an expert in either.

Some parts are quite memorable and the best scenes are with another married couple, Eleanor Bron and William Daniels and the little brat monster from hell that they're raising. Bron used to be involved with Finney and she'd like to keep some kind of tie there. But as parents the two are absolute flops, they're very liberal types who don't believe in disciplining their little sugar plum. In fact Audrey has to take a hand in there when the situation becomes intolerable.

According to The Films Of Audrey Hepburn, Finney's part was originally schedule for Michael Caine. I could certainly have seen him in the role.

I don't think the cinematic jigsaw was necessary. It would have been a better film just done as a straight linear narrative. Still fans of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney should be pleased.

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