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In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French "nouvelle vague" filmmakers. Jump cutting back a... read more read more...nd forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the 12-year relationship between architect Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn). While backpacking through Europe, student Finney falls for lovely music student Jacqueline Bisset, but later settles for Hepburn, another aspiring musician (this vignette served as the launching pad for the film-within-a-film in Francois Truffaut's 1973 classic Day for Night). Once married, Finney and Hepburn go on a desultory honeymoon, travelling in the company of insufferable American tourists William Daniels and Eleanor Bron and their equally odious daughter Gabrielle Middleton. Later on, during yet another road trip, Finney is offered an irresistible job opportunity by Claude Dauphin, which ultimately distances Finney from his now-pregnant wife. Still remaining on the road, the film then details Finney and Hepburn's separate infidelities. The film ends where it begins, with Finney and Hepburn taking still another road vacation, hoping to sew up their unraveling marriage. While critics did nip-ups over Stanley Donen's "revolutionary" nonlinear story-telling techniques, audiences responded to the chemistry between Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, not to mention the unforgettable musical score by Henry Mancini. Note: many TV prints of Two for the Road are edited for content, robbing the viewer of Finney and Hepburn's delightful "Bitch/Bastard" closing endearments. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Release Date: April 27, 1967

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  • jennifxu
    May 1, 2011
    jennifxu
    Albert Finney is sososososo hot. This is what Shoot the Moon wants to be but isn't. I'm glad it ends happily - really, really glad.
  • groaningbitch
    December 31, 2008
    groaningbitch
    "two for the road" is a refreshingly unique example of abandoned gentility from both director stanley donen and demure glamour star audrey hepburn who has impressed audience universally with her princessly benevolent attribute. now both donen and hepburn have to deal with blatant... read more exclamation of sex without descending into vulgarity even at moments audrey hepburn gets scorned as a "BITCH". meanwhile donen has to exert the french new-wave method on a non-linear script without losing his masterful touch.

    this is a story upon a couple falling head over heels in love on the journey of hitchhiking along europe continent, entwined with their sizzling chemistry of opposite attraction: an amorous ingenue get smitten with cynical chauvinist who mocks marriage. somehow these two eventually gets married despite the collisions of their living philosophies.

    the camera wheels along their conjuring of past memories, and it's like a story book clipped into pieces then pastiched together as the protagonists' threads of thoughts catapult from one ground to another, resonated with french post-structualist literature as the stream-lined time scale has been omitted while our spectrum of emotionality has been excerpted into microscopic inspections. but "two for the road" is incredibly far from self-indulgent eccentricity or disjointed style over substance that has permeated in "thomas crown affair" which is also another new-wave-tinted flick released in 1967.

    albert finney is definitely not a debonair like cary grant who has been the frequent lead in stanley donen's romantic drama like "indiscreet" and "the grass is greener" (both movies are very britishly suave), and the rawly sneering mannerism of finney has been a great contrast to hepburn's girlish naivete (even she was 37 then), such as the conversation about "virgin detection", and once again it's also a dialogue-driven movie with timelessly contemporary wisecrackers upon love and sex within marriage. it doesn't appear dated even at 2000s with its bohemian viewpoint upon romance on the road.

    once again, audrey hepburn's star magnitude whitewashes the possible sordidness within some serious subject matters in the movie, and that includes infidelity with lines like "i humuliated you, but i'm back!" or "sex is better when it means less because it ain't personal anymore"...the potential abrasiveness gets purified due to the childlike interactions of hepburn and finney even when the couple are committing improper sins, just like their remarks toward each other as "bitch" and "bastard" at the brightful ending of their smacking kisses. there's no sense of profanity but taunting of two kids playing houses.

    as for the fashion aspect of "two for the road", audrey hepburn emancipates from her genteel wardrobe of givenchy (who has created the whole hepburn legend in movies like "breakfast at tiffany's" and "sarbrina") to reel into the leisure-wear with leather-skin jacket and blue jeans, along with a beatnik leading man who prefers sex as "good service without binding contract"...perhaps it reflects the conforming phenomenon of the upcoming 70s, even icons of gentility have to demonstrate their cinematic liberations for chicness as audrey hepburn into slacks and stanley donen into road-movie romance without self-composed gentlemen and ladies.
  • dreamfaeries
    December 12, 2006
    dreamfaeries
    This was great. Loved it.
  • deano
    November 28, 2006
    deano
    Good romantic-comedy and past memories of the couple - Audrey Hepburn (my idol) and Albert Finney.
  • mjgildea
    October 26, 2006
    mjgildea
    A great movie to watch when you get sick of everything that's out now.
  • SunilJawahir
    September 18, 2009
    SunilJawahir
    A glorious romance that is pretty effortlessly put together. I like the balance of good times and bad.
  • ileo
    July 25, 2008
    ileo
    Great!
  • dreaminginstereo
    April 25, 2012
    dreaminginstereo
    An enjoyable film about the love and adventures of life partners. The best screenplay about marriage that I've been introduced to of late. The costume styles and various vehicles really set the visual tone for the entire film. I love the editing sequences of the different stages ... read moreof the couple's relationship and of course, the Henry Mancini theme song: a very bittersweet melody.
  • fb68600877
    February 8, 2012
    fb68600877
    Fantastically edited and superbly acted. This might be Audrey Hepburn's finest performance and her most unusual. This film reminded me a lot of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", but it wasn't nearly so funny or so bitter. It struck a great compromise between bitter realism and ou... read moretright romanticism that really worked for me.
  • kflannelly
    June 21, 2010
    kflannelly
    As long as it was, and as simple as the story was, I never once got bored. Seriously underrated but beautifully nuanced, I think this might be Audrey's best movie.

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Critic Reviews

Lori Hoffman
January 11, 2007
Lori Hoffman, Atlantic City Weekly

A benchmark of marital dischord with luminous Hepburn, cheeky Finney

Thomas Delapa
November 15, 2005
Thomas Delapa, Boulder Weekly

The jagged editing left many audiences stranded, but credit Donen for at least trying to put some gas in the worn-out conventions of 1960s mainstream filmmaking. Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
November 11, 2005
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

Despite its visual trickery, it's one of the most emotionally honest films ever made in America. Full Review

Carlo Cavagna
November 26, 2003
Carlo Cavagna, AboutFilm.com

One of the best movies about relationships ever. Outstanding performances.

Ken Hanke
August 14, 2003
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Superb character study.

September 24, 2008
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May 9, 2005
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Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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Joe Lozito
July 10, 2007
Joe Lozito, Big Picture Big Sound

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Christopher Null
January 15, 2006
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

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