Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn, Claude Dauphin

A married couple travels in Europe at four different stages in their relationship.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Release Date: April 27, 1967

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DVD Release Date: November 1, 2005

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  • December 31, 2008
    "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.
  • December 12, 2006
    This was great. Loved it.
  • October 26, 2006
    A great movie to watch when you get sick of everything that's out now.
  • September 18, 2009
    A glorious romance that is pretty effortlessly put together. I like the balance of good times and bad.
  • July 25, 2008
    Great!
  • September 16, 2009
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  • August 7, 2009
    Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn (who are so lovely together) chronicle 12 years of a married couples life from when they first met to their 12 yr, and writer Frederic Raphael uses their various road trips through Europe as a metaphore of their relationship and it's captured well...( read more) by director Stanley Donen, despite the cutting back and forth in time we are presented with. It's done well and for a purpose of showing some things (and some roads we take) never change underneath it all, despite what is on the surface.
  • March 15, 2009
    Seemed the story of my life. 2 people meet, fall in love, but life goes on and they unintentionally drift apart until they do not know what happened.. my ending is better
  • November 5, 2008
    Albert Finney... and Audrey
  • August 11, 2008
    This is the story of a disintegrating marriage, told by interweaving segments from four different periods in the marriage. The format of the movie, bouncing back and forth between the good times and the bad, requires two actors who can make you believe they young lovebirds in one...( read more) scene, an angry, bitter middle-aged couple in the next and then new parents struggling to keep the passion alive in the scene after that. Finney and Hepburn respond to this challenge remarkably well. The result is a very powerful and very disturbing movie that reminds us how easy it is to fall in love and how hard life makes it to stay in love.

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  • ilovelucy1951
    June 21, 2007
    Interesting movie. As I've said, it's very confusing. It really gives you an interesting look at the relationship between the married couple in this movie. If you like Audrey Hepburn, then I recommend this movie. It's very different from anything she's ever done.

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