Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
View MoreThe thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
View MoreThe movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
View MoreIt really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
View MoreThis movie has two charming lead actors and some pretty scenery. Other than that, it has about the worst script and supporting roles of any movie I have ever suffered through. HOW was this movie nominated for a Best Writing Oscar???? The dialogues are not even vaguely clever. And, equally confounding to me, WHO went to the theater and actually paid to see this movie??? It's not funny, it's not really romantic. And it is certainly very aggravating, especially when we have to deal with the second couple. This movie confounds me, but not in any interesting way.
View MoreTWO FOR THE ROAD is a tepid, uninspired, faintly depressing "comedy" about a married couple on the edge of divorce who drive through France reminiscing about the past ten years of their marriage. It's like a very, very watered down version of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, minus the tragedy, minus the pain, minus the insights, minus the truth. Yet TWO FOR THE ROAD began life as something very different. Originally entitled "the Big Freakout," the original screenplay meant to showcase the return of screen darling Audrey Hepburn as a fiery vixen of revolution and social change. It was only when Hepburn herself read the script and began having terrible nightmares that the bland, marriage on the rocks story was concocted by studio hacks. The story opens with a preteen Audrey, squatting to urinate on the grave of Winston Churchill, who raped her mother while touring the East End during the darkest days of the London Blitz. Drooling and sneering, a stodgy MP listens to her story, calls her a liar, and then clubs her with an umbrella. Audrey is sentenced to ten years in a sadistic girls reform school. After a montage of lesbian sex, gang violence, and field hockey (all inter-cut with a scorching live UK performance of "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets) Audrey emerges from prison at the edge of womanhood, ready (as she puts it) for "loads of men, loads of fun, and loads of destruction!"Albert Finney first enters the film as a young Oxford lad presenting a paper on youth unrest in Britain. When a kindly professor suggests that the lad needs "street research" to "sharpen his insights" the gullible Finney immediately rents a cheap motorcar and goes cruising across the British countryside. The first person he meets is Hepburn, thumbing for a ride in the pouring rain while singing "I Wanna Be Your Man" by the Beatles at the top her lungs. Finney and Hepburn immediately connect, having steamy sex in a barn to the sounds of "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones. But when they wake up in the morning, their car is gone! Hepburn claims to know of a fortune in jewels buried in a nearby churchyard, and she leads Finney on a desperate scavenger hunt that swiftly leads to cannibalism, necrophilia, grave robbing, and blues wailing at a local club, where Audrey sits in as vocalist with the original 1964 lineup of the Animals, reunited for a smoking set that includes "Boom Boom," "House of the Rising Sun," "I'm Crying," and "Send You Back to Walker." At the end of the set, Audrey says quietly, "I died many years ago," blowing her brains out with a concealed pistol just as the police arrive. Back at Oxford, Albert Finney presents his paper on teen violence and street crime to a standing ovation and top marks. Wandering out into the yard, he sees a beautiful wild flower growing up between the bricks, the spirit of Audrey Hepburn set free at last.
View MoreWorkaholic architect Mark Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife Jo (Audrey Hepburn) are unhappily married. The movie flashes backwards and forwards throughout their decade long relationship. They first met on the boat in France when he was backpacking and she was with a girls singing group. While everybody else gets chicken pox, Jo is immune and hitchhikes with Mark. In the present, they drive south to Saint-Tropez and struggle to maintain their crumbling relationship as they recall their past journeys.I wish the movie catches the couple fighting in the present day. They have essentially given up and leaves the movie with a depressed feeling. It never really shakes that sense of depression. They need to fight because at least that means that they still care. The overall sense is that they stop caring and that's not a great starting point. The two leads are wonderful and this is a very adult relationship.
View MoreA wonderful,wonderful movie. I saw it first when it was released and could never get enough of it. I try to see it whenever I get the chance. The script by Frederic Raphael is sublime and the direction superb. Donen makes a great job of this movie I love it and his" Charade" also starring AH. All the supporting actors are just that-they support the leads and give the movie the atmosphere it needs to succeed.A special mention for Eleanor Bron who has been sadly underused in film (maybe her choice). One would have expected a film like this to have dated badly but I do not find that-it seems fresh every time I see it. It is funny,touching, romantic and above all witty. A really apt look at a relationship/marriage through several years. It says so much about male/female relationships without hitting its audience over the head with a metaphorical hammer.
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