Movie Notes: Two For The Road
June 1st, 2007
This gem slipped under my radar after all these years. It’s a 1967 road film featuring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, turning in expert, mature performances as Joanna and Mark Wallace, married for twelve years. The film cuts between several of the couple’s trips to Europe, showing different stages of their relationship. The tricky thing is there isn’t any framing to the leaps in time, leaving only visual cues in the hairstyles, clothing, who they’re with, and above all the couple’s behavior towards one another.
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