THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD Trailer: This Multigenerational Italian Road Comedy Arrives in May
After making stops at last year’s Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF, Francesco Sossai’s road trip comedy The Last One for the Road is ready to charm U.S. audiences in time for spring. It stars The Hand of God breakout Filippo Scotti as a timid twenty-something student who’s unexpectedly befriended by a pair of swindling old-timers (Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla) as they embark across Veneto in search of an old friend. The film leads with the most nominations for Italy’s David di Donatello Awards (the country’s own Academy Awards), including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for both Romano and Capovilla. Music Box Films will release it at NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center on May 1, before expanding to further cities nationwide.
As the official synopsis reads:
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.
See the U.S. trailer and poster below.
