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Director
Stanley Donen
Cast
Audrey Hepburn,
Albert Finney,
Georges Descrières,
Claude Dauphin,
Nadia Gray,
Jacqueline Bisset
Genre
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and the increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
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.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A Hollywood-style romance between beautiful people, and an honest story about recognizable human beings.
Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr
Arguably Stanley Donen's masterpiece, and undoubtedly one of the most stylistically influential films of the 60s.
USA Today by Mike Clark
Donen (previously Hepburn's director in Funny Face and Charade) gets everything out of a brainstorm romantic teaming that didn't - and doesn't - spring automatically to mind. [05 Nov 1993, p.3D]
The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps
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.
CineVue
The work bears the burden of Classical Hollywood, making it not only a film about two people decoupling, but a striking example of forms in combat, struggling for a dominant voice.
CineVue by Craig Williams
The work bears the burden of Classical Hollywood, making it not only a film about two people decoupling, but a striking example of forms in combat, struggling for a dominant voice.
TV Guide Magazine
Donen's direction here is a trifle trendy and frantic, with sometimes jarring results.
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Donen's direction here is a trifle trendy and frantic, with sometimes jarring results.
LarsenOnFilm by Josh Larsen
As for the two leads, they have charm to spare, and it’s startling to see Hepburn bring bitterness to bear on her trademark wit, but the relationship and all its foibles still feel prescribed by the overall structure, not borne of real life.
Empire by Phil de Semlyen
Sharply scripted with a melancholic charm.
The New York Times by Bosley Crowther
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.
The New Republic
Two for the Road is a good try; it's often pretty and sometimes funny; one wishes it well, one wishes it were better.
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