Two for the Road

Mark Wallace is an architect, and Joanna is the woman he meets while travelling in Europe. The two marry, and over roughly a decade they make repeated journeys between London and the south of France, the region where they first became acquainted. Their early trips together are light-hearted and romantic, with courtship, jokes and the pleasure of each other's company. Later journeys are quieter and more strained, as routine and disagreements wear at the relationship. The couple's difficulties are bound up with infidelity on both sides, and their present trip becomes a chance to look back at how they have changed and to weigh whether to separate or to accept one another as they are.

The film is a British production directed by Stanley Donen, the eleventh of the sixteen features he directed in chronological order, following Bedazzled and preceding Staircase. Frederic Raphael wrote the screenplay, and Donen produced. Audrey Hepburn plays Joanna opposite Albert Finney as Mark, with Georges Descrières, Claude Dauphin, Nadia Gray and Jacqueline Bisset among the credited cast of thirty-four.

Released in April 1967, the film runs 112 minutes and mixes comedy, drama and romance. It was made for about 4 million dollars. On IMDb it holds 7.3 out of 10 from around 16,000 votes, and on TMDB 7 out of 10 from roughly 269 votes. A critics' rating of 7.5 out of 10 from 23 reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.