Two for the Road
1967, NR, 112 min.
Directed by Stanley Donen, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney.

Certainly one of the very best films in each of Donen and Hepburn’s careers, this devastatingly lovely remnant of Hollywood’s anything-goes Sixties (with a script by Frederic Raphael) tells the story of a marriage by showing a couple over the course of successive trips to the south of France. Witness naivete breed contempt.

This article appears in July 9 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.