Two for the Road (1967)

NR04/27/1967Drama, Romance, Comedy1h 52m
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They make something wonderful out of being alive!

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Audrey Hepburn

    Joanna Wallace

  2. Cast 1

    Albert Finney

    Mark Wallace

  3. Cast 1

    Georges Descrières

    David

  4. Cast 1

    Claude Dauphin

    Maurice Dalbret

  5. Cast 1

    Nadia Gray

    Françoise Dalbret

  6. Cast 1

    Jacqueline Bisset

    Jackie

  7. Cast 1

    Eleanor Bron

    Cathy Manchester

  8. Cast 1

    William Daniels

    Howard Manchester

  9. Gabrielle Middleton

    Ruth Manchester

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, a...