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- 1967
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 51 m
- 1967
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 51 m
Summary A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.
Directed By: Stanley Donen
Written By: Frederic Raphael
- 1967
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 51 m
- 1967
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 51 m
Two for the Road
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7.2
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Summary A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.
Directed By: Stanley Donen
Written By: Frederic Raphael
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
78
62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Certainly one of the very best films in each of Donen and Hepburn's careers, this devastatingly lovely remnant of Hollywood's anything-goes Sixties (with a script by Frederic Raphael) tells the story of a marriage by showing a couple over the course of successive trips to the south of France.
Arguably Stanley Donen's masterpiece, and undoubtedly one of the most stylistically influential films of the 60s.
The film's surface is made up of familiar '60s romantic-comedy elements, from Hepburn's haute wardrobe to the Henry Mancini score to the breezy interaction between the stars. They banter, bicker, and make up with witty repartee. It's what movie love is supposed to look like, which makes it all the more heartbreaking to know that it's destined to sour.
Donen's direction here is a trifle trendy and frantic, with sometimes jarring results.
As far as producer, director, femme lead and screenwriter are concerned, this attempt to visually analyze the bits and pieces that go into making a marriage, and then making it work, is successful. If it drags a bit here and there, blame it on the stodgy performance of actor Albert Finney who is unable to convey the lightness, gaiety and romanticism needed.
Two for the Road is a good try; it's often pretty and sometimes funny; one wishes it well, one wishes it were better.
There are some precious moments of romantic charm in this bitter account of domestic discord amid surroundings that should inspire nothing but delight. And so one must seize upon them for the entertainment that is to be had, and endure the tedium of much of the picture.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
