Two for the Road

At the end of 1967 Audrey Hepburn decided to stop acting in order to spend more time with her family. She didn't take on another role until Robin and Marion in 1976 and then only acted occasionally, starring in a further four films before her death in 1993 aged 63.

Two for the Road, one of two films Hepburn made in 1967 before her semi retirement, is not particularly well known but it's one of her best. Teaming up once again with Singin' in the Rain Director Stanley Donen who had directed her in Funny Face 10 years previously, the film is notable for the many striking and outrageous outfits Hepburn's Joanna Wallace wears designed by the likes of Mary Quant and Paco Rabanne.

Charting the relationship of a couple, Joanna and Albert Finney's Mark, over a 12 year period the film leaps backwards and forwards in time charting the ups and downs of their courtship and marriage through various road trips and holidays all very cleverly stitched together.

The film's non-linear narrative structure was pretty ground breaking for the time and has been heavily borrowed since by the likes of Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine in 2010.