Two for the Road (1967)

If you haven’t been married for a dozen years or more you may want to move on … otherwise I think you’ll find this film to be:

An insightful look at marriage told in a nonlinear way as a road picture (the couple is always traveling) by director-producer Stanley Donen and featuring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. This (comedy romance) drama is a series of vignettes brilliantly edited together non-sequentially which detail the twelve year relationship between Mark (Finney) and Joanna (Hepburn) Wallace including: their beginning (e.g. how they met & fell in love; he was a drifting architect taking photographs of the architecture in France while she was traveling with a choral group led by Jacqueline Bisset’s character) their honeymoon road-trip across Europe with another couple – William Daniels plays an efficiency expert who married Mark’s first love (Eleanor Bron) from his days at the University of Chicago in America; this couple has a precocious six year old that they allow to control them – the Wallace’s first two years of marital bliss a little of their child rearing years – he’s overworked and struggling to make a name for himself (yet while on the road he has an occasional one night stand) employed by a demanding boss named Maurice (Claude Dauphin) while she’s a near single mother – then his career successful but their disillusioning years as a ‘mature’ married couple during which (neglected) Joanna falls in love with (being in love &) Maurice’s ‘serious’ French brother-in-law (Georges Descrières) and briefly leaves Mark and their ultimate reconciliation and acceptance of who they are (“bitch” and “bastard”) and what they are together. Frederic Raphael (Darling (1965)) earned his second and last Academy Award nomination for his Original Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

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