Two for the Road | Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney | Audrey and Beautiful Score...What more?

Two for the Road | Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney | It's About Time!

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Two for the Road

	Two for the Road Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney 20th Century Fox, 2005 average customer review:based on 96 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Audrey and Beautiful Score...What more?

If you have ever wondered what happened to good, funny, happy, sad love stories, wonder no more. Watch Two For The Road, it has it all! All the normal, abnormal ups and downs of love with a great cast, beautiful landscapes and a gorgeous score. I originally saw it in the movies and now own it so I can watch it every few months. I never get tired of Audrey and Albert. (And besides, I owned the orange coat she wears in it.) Give yourself a gift and rent/buy it.

It's About Time!

Finally, "Two for the Road" is available on DVD. I've worn my poor VHS copy to death. This is very underrated Audrey and very underrated Donen. The film tosses traditional linear narrative out the window as it examines a 12-year marriage by intercutting scenes from several different European vacations taken by the central couple, played by Hepburn and Albert Finney. It's all linked together masterfully (no Donen film was better cut than this one) into a movie that offers a fresh perspective on the "woman's film" (the critical community's perjorative term for anything that doesn't deal with war, politics, espionage, crime, or some other stereotypically 'male' arena) and a unique insight into what happens AFTER the 'happy ending' that concludes most other romantic films. Plus it's one of the few films in her canon in which Audrey plays opposite a leading man who isn't WAY too old for her. A must for her fans.

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ah the sixties

This is a wonderful caper and a film made for Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. Several scenes stand out such as the one where they are in the hotel and didn't realize that breakfast was included. The constant flashbacks are not at all irritating and only add to the sense of film at the time it was made. For anyone who admires the light breeziness of Albert Finney and is madly in love with Audrey Hepburn this is a film for you. Great stuff.

Road Trip

As a fan of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, this has always been a favorite movie so I finally bought the VHS for my library. The story is told in flashbacks which can be a bit confusing the first time you see it. TIP: remember what clothes they're wearing in each time period. It's the story of a couple who have been together for some years and success hasn't helped their relationship. They're wondering whether to stay together and remembering several stages in their relationship. It may take a few viewings to keep the story straight but I think it's well worth it. Good Henry Mancini score - although I wish a vocal version of the theme song had been included.

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Appeal that wavers like the love...

Folks who've seen any movie featuring either Albert Finney or Audrey Hepburn are likely to be sold on Two For The Road before it starts. Sweetening the promise is Stanley Donen in the director's chair, having previously directed Hepburn in 1963's wildly intriguing and stylish CHARADE. Donen appears to be trading on viewers' appreciation for CHARADE when he opens this film with another animated, 60's/Austin Powers-style title sequence, but that's the last similarity - until you start to notice that a fair amount of time is ticking by...

We are introduced to Finney and Hepburn as a bored, wealthy couple waiting to board an air ferry over the English channel. Finney's Mark Wallace, a successful architect, does not conceal his disenchantment with his wife and she does not conceal her frustration with him. The fading relationship is not a new literary device, and the dullened question of "how did we get here" doesn't pave a way for break-through cinema, so the film takes rather a gamble by launching into a 90-minute flashback to tell us the whole, sprawling story of this couple - before it's gotten us to care about them.

Nonetheless, average moviegoer patience should be enough to keep one focused long enough to notice the charm and the edginess of these characters, whetting our appetite for the ongoing sass of courtship. As a relationship unfurls, we are taken on road trips through Europe, to quaint bed-and-breakfasts in the French countryside, to wealthy people's estates - these elements alone tend to captivate American audiences even without regard to the dyad of titanic thespian talent in the foreground. But beware Americans, we are portrayed most unflatteringly in the personages of Howard and Cathy Manchester, a shamelessly modern couple (played with sheer mastery by William Daniels and Eleanor Bron) with whom Finney and Hepburn find themselves sharing an overly regimented road trip (to Howard's timekeeper objections to leaving "the main road", Finney rants, "I should warn you Howard, before we get to Athens, that the Acropolis is OFF THE MAIN ROAD").

Such satisfying jabs, and the more traditionally British dry wit, occur just often enough to sustain our interest in this picture, but oftentimes their occurrence reminds us that our interest needed refreshing.

All-in-all, this film gives us a nice dose of face-time with two of the most talented, enchanting actors in movie history, a leisurely dawdle through European countryside, and a little wink back in time to when America and Great Britain were embarking on something of a love affair of their own.

Like that affair, this one can be engaging, refreshing, boring, eye-opening, forced, unfounded, tiring, and worthwhile.

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