Two for the Road

(1967)

★ 7 IMDb · 269 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Year: 1967

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Стэнли Донен

Cast: Одри Хепбёрн, Альберт Финни, Georges Descrières, Клод Дофен, Nadia Gray, Жаклин Биссет, Eleanor Bron, Уильям Дэниелс, Gabrielle Middleton, Judy Cornwell

Plot

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

Joanna and her architect husband, Mark Wallace have been married for a decade, and their relationship's become very rocky. As they drive from their London home to St. Tropez for the unveiling of a house Mark has designed for his clients, Maurice and Francoise Dalbret, they recall the events - both happy and sad, which neither then to this point. Told in flashback they pair recall their first meeting, and memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, as well as the tensions they both felt which led them each to extramarital affairs. With a terrific score by Henry Mancini, this welli-loved Stanley Donnen film's a sparkling effervescent story which deals in an atypical way for films of this time - showing both the joyousness and pathos off love.