Two for the Road (1967)

The year is 1959. A group of young British women are travelling through France in a VW microbus when they come across a recently graduated architect, played by Albert Finney. All but one of the women -- Audrey Hepburn -- comes down with chicken pox, so she and Finney set off together.

Prior to this we are introduced to Finney and Hepburn as a jaded married couple some seven years later, and then later in the film, Finney and Hepburn a year after they first met, and then Finney and Hepburn travelling with a contrasting American couple and their six-year-old daughter a couple years after their second trip, for a total of four trips through France, all of which cut back and forth to and from each other in what has been called "a masterful display of [narrative] editing."

Two for the Road is an irritating yet occasionally insightful film directed by the last of the Golden Age filmmakers, Stanley Donen. The film attempts some of what Godard explores with gender relations in films like Pierrot le fou (1965), only in Godard's film the man is more complex, more ambiguous than the two-dimensional angry young man Donen gives us.