The Last One for the Road - Cinematheque - Mama Santos
Details
Not since CIFF have I seen a good Italian film.
MOVIE
Meet before and after the movie by the red chairs. We will walk to the restaurant.
EATS
Well, we really had to eat in Little Italy. Guarinos has a great patio.
DESCRIPTION
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. “A loose-limbed and quietly enchanting sophomore feature” –Tomris Laffry, Variety.
ROTTEN TOMATOES 86
REVIEW
“Combining mischievous energy with stylish throwback visuals, this meandering Italian comedy of lifelong friendships and arrested development compensates for its jumbled narrative momentum with bittersweet charm."
FULL REVIEW
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