Filmmaker is happy to share the trailer premiere of Italian director Francesco Sossai’s second feature, The Last One for the Road. The film depicts the unlikely friendship between two alcoholic petty criminals, Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla, One Dimensional Man bandmember in his film debut), and a soft-spoken architecture student named Giulio (Filippo Scotti).
Loosely inspired by his the filmmaker’s own experience and rooted in his love for the northern Veneto region, The Last One for the Road premiered last year in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, where Leonardo Goi sat down with Sossai to discuss his latest work. It then went on to screen at TIFF and the New York Film Festival in the fall. It will release via Music Box Films at IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center in New York on May 1, with other cities to follow.
Read a full synopsis of the film below, and find additional information and showtimes on Music Box Films’ website.
The bottom has fallen out for Carlobianchi and Doriano, two small-time Italian crooks. They haven’t been able to mount an honest scam since the 2008 financial crisis and now face the impending mediocrity of middle age. The return of an exiled partner-in-crime from Argentina affords a second chance for long-buried riches, but can Carlobianchi and Doriano put down their beers long enough to keep their eyes on the prize? Along their slow motion, alcoholic grand tour of the Venetian countryside, they cross paths with Giulio, a shy architecture student who reluctantly warms to the sodden pair and indulges their rants about the folly of globalization and the slow decline of local color. Each roadside tavern offers the promise of one last drink – unless the next one ups the ante. Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.
