Two for the Road
1967
****
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn, William Daniels, Eleanor Bron, Gabrielle Middleton, Claude Dauphin
An English couple on holiday in France reflect on their previous travels and their 12-year-old relationship. We see how they meet, get married, have a child and go through difficult periods. All of this is told in an inventive scrambled structure which moves smoothly and unpredictably between the past and the present. The transitions between the memories are especially well executed. The result is a funny, charming and poignant romantic comedy drama in which Finney and Hepburn are both terrific.
