The last one for the road is a film that borrows from several genres, the Italian comedy of the 60s and 70s, the road movie, the social film and the coming-of-age story.
The film begins with the nocturnal image of two completely drunk fifty-year-olds asleep in a black sedan in the middle of the road. We will follow this duo of drunken losers, whose faces evoke the characters of Dino Risi’s comedies, in their nocturnal and diurnal wanderings in Veneto. In the middle of the night, they encounter a group of partying students and, among them, a serious and shy architecture student, who leaves the group to go revise his lessons, while bitterly regretting abandoning the student he loves. The two friends will take care of him to teach him about life. They take him by force on a journey that will take them from cafes to restaurants but also to the beautiful home of a penniless aristocrat and on an unsuccessful hunt for a treasure, a memory of their past life as not very honest workers.
Because the film, under the burlesque of the comedy, also evokes, through the characters of Carlobianchi and Doriano, the deindustrialization of Italy and this generation born in the 70s which finds itself ejected from the system […]
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