DramaRomanceComedy

Two for the Road

- They make something wonderful out of being alive!

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

Release Date : 1967-04-27

Language :EnglishItalianFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Stanley Donen Films

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Joanna Wallace

Original Name : Audrey Hepburn

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mark Wallace

Original Name : Albert Finney

Gender : Male

Character Name : David

Original Name : Georges Descrières

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maurice Dalbret

Original Name : Claude Dauphin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Françoise Dalbret

Original Name : Nadia Gray

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jackie

Original Name : Jacqueline Bisset

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cathy Manchester

Original Name : Eleanor Bron

Gender : Female

Character Name : Howard Manchester

Original Name : William Daniels

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ruth Manchester

Original Name : Gabrielle Middleton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pat

Original Name : Judy Cornwell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Yvonne de Florac

Original Name : Irène Hilda

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sylvia Obino

Original Name : Dominique Joos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited)

Original Name : Olga Georges-Picot

Gender : Female

Character Name : Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited)

Original Name : Clarissa Hillel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Simone (uncredited)

Original Name : Karyn Balm

Gender : Female

Character Name : Police Inspector (uncredited)

Original Name : Yves Barsacq

Gender : Male

Character Name : Caroline Wallace (uncredited)

Original Name : Kathy Chelimsky

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gilbert, 'Comte de Florac' (uncredited)

Original Name : Roger Dann

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel Concierge (uncredited)

Original Name : Jacques Hilling

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boat Officer (uncredited)

Original Name : Jean-François Laley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Le Béal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Farmer (uncredited)

Original Name : Paul Mercey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Customs Officer (uncredited)

Original Name : Albert Michel

Gender : Male

Character Name : American Lady (uncredited)

Original Name : Libby Morris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit part (uncredited)

Original Name : Moustache

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Original Name : Denise Péron

Gender : Female

Character Name : Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited)

Original Name : Sophia Torkely

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mme. Solange (uncredited)

Original Name : Hélène Tossy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Michelle (uncredited)

Original Name : Carol van Dyke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Palamos (uncredited)

Original Name : Mario Verdon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited)

Original Name : Patricia Viterbo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited)

Original Name : Joanna Vogel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Cathy Jones

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

How long are you going to resent the past? Two for the Road is directed by Stanley Donen and written by Frederic Raphael. It stars Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. Music is by Henry Mancini and Christopher Challis is the cinematographer. Film basically deconstructs in non-linear fashion the relationship between Joanna (Hepburn) and Mark Wallace (Finney). Set out on the road as the couple meet, go on vacation, fall out and make up, narrative is threaded over a 12 year period. Donen and Raphael have crafted a picture that takes the many emotional strands of a man and woman relationship, and lays them out bare for us all to see. It's this honest like approach, coupled with the two watchable lead actors, that really engages me personally. There's moments of fun, slapstick even, but these are always coupled to an onset of sadness or regret, making this neither comedy or drama, but a near perfect fusion of the two - or bittersweet to coin an actual word for it. Mancini's music is sweet and breezy, the title track apparently one of his personal favourites, while Challis' Panavision photography is often beautiful. There's some credibility stretching with Hepburn playing her younger self, and one on going gag is overcooked in the extreme, but Two for the Road still feels fresh and interesting to those willing to invest fully in the thematics of the human marital condition. Film also signs off with a killer bit of dialogue from the protagonists that you wont be able to forget. 8/10

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-04-14

"Joanna" (Audrey Hepburn) and husband "Mark" (Albert Finney) are taking a road-trip to the South of France where they are to attend the opening of a home designed by him for "Maurice" (Claude Dauphin) and "Francoise" (Nadia Gray). It's clear from the outset that this couple's days in the sunlit uplands have long passed and that they are really now just going through the marital motions. Along the route, though, Stanley Donen introduces us to this couple - using flashbacks - and we we discover the happier times as they met, commandeered an old jalopy, made love under the stars etc... We are also presented with the scenarios that led to the cracks developing, to their loss of trust in each other, to their own equally selfish behaviour and ultimately bringing us to the point where start. Is it all irredeemable? To be honest, that didn't really matter. What we have here is an electric relationship portrayed by two stars who have a genuine, natural, chemistry together. Finney, particularly, looks like he is genuinely enjoying his time and Hepburn just oozes a joyousness and flightiness that makes the love story compelling and engaging to watch. As it develops, both grow up and we have to grow up with them - an experience that we all, however reluctantly, have to endure with always unpredictable results. The well constructed dialogue is authentic and frequently quite witty, and it is delivered confidently by two actors clearly at ease in the other's company. Henri Mancini delivers a delightfully suitable accompaniment to this tale of the lives and loves of two people who don't really know how, or why, they've got to this position in their lives and even in their latter stages, that still exudes an agreeable degree of joie-de-vivre!