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Two for the Road

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Stanley Donen.
With Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney.
US, 1967, 35mm, color, 112 min.
Print source: 20th Century Fox

For her third and final Donen film, Hepburn delivers perhaps her most delicate screen performance as the better half of a couple followed through five stages of their relationship, each centered around separate road trips through the French countryside. Albert Finney’s resolutely uncharming performance as the husband counterbalances Hepburn’s vulnerability, creating the realistic battle of the wills at the frequently bruised but never quite broken heart of this bittersweet comedic drama. The screenplay, by Frederic Raphael, fractures the timeline, intercutting each trip to contrast or complement emotional or visual moments in the couple’s life. The result is quite simply one of the cinema’s most complete and complex examinations of married life, and a high point of Donen’s post-musical career.

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