Not afraid of obvious symbolism, Stanley Donen cast Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney in this flashback of a ten-year romance that began, coincidentally, on a European road. The struggling confessions of the film’s main characters gives both actors, especially Hepburn, dimension to their careers. As John DiLeo claims in Screen Savers, Hepburn’s character, Joanna, in [...]

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Fox’s Two for the Road, the most ambitious of the Hepburn-Donen pictures, is a smart, humorous, and touching examination of a marriage. For her love interest, Albert Finney, an age-appropriate actor (actually seven years Hepburn’s junior), was cast. Finney may have caused a sensation as the adorably roguish title character in Tom Jones (1963), but [...]

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