The Last One for the Road

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The Last One for the Road

May 2026

1h 40m

Drama

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Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him under their wing on a free-flowing bender through the Italian countryside in a scruffy intergenerational odyssey.

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

Jul 16, 2026

Steeped in atmosphere, this film takes us to surprising places at its own sweet pace -- just as you hope a good road movie would.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jul 14, 2026

4/5

Sossai’s story is loose but deceptively complex, peppered with Wes Anderson-style flashbacks and diversions.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Jul 9, 2026

3/5

Sossai favours digressions over plot, allowing recollections, landscapes and chance encounters to coalesce into a shaggy hair-of-the-dog story.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Aug 3, 2026

Sossai completely shatters audience expectations with a tragicomedy about marginalized, strange, chaotic, and almost grotesque individuals...[Full review in Spanish]

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Luis Martínez

El Mundo (Spain)

Jul 31, 2026

3/5

Somewhere between Kaurismäki's penchant for the bewildered and Nanni Moretti's perpetually wounded sincerity, Sossai manages to compose a refined and poignant portrait of unease. [Full review in Spanish]

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Laura Pérez

Fotogramas

Jul 30, 2026

3/5

The erratic narration seems to respond more to an attitude of the characters than to a lack of script...and a long sequence in the breathtaking Tomb of Brion provides a transcendental sense that lasts long after the film is over. [Full review in Spanish]

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Fred B

@fredinMA 1 day ago

Maybe not for everyone. It's a deceptively simple tale about two weary, boozy, aging petty criminals forever seeking "The Last One for the Road." They run into an awkward architecture student who is about to leave a group of his friends celebrating graduation so he can prepare for his presentation next morning. But they convince him to go to the party, then shepherd him to ride along with them on their aimless drive. The movie balances their rough stupidity with his love for the architecture and history of Italy, culminating in a visit to Brion's tomb. Beneath the surface these men have an intimacy and unexpressed love for life. The visit to the tomb becomes an awakening in different ways for all of them.

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Vincent S

@RT47579145 Jun 26, 2026

I thought this was going to be a fun, funny comedy about two friends on a road trip and I love road trip movies but I was bored. It’s more of two old men thinking they are funny when they really aren’t.

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virginia S

@Ginny72 May 9, 2026

Charming at times, and the appealing young guy saves the movie. I always have a hard time watching dirty drunks, although they weren’t terrible people.

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Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him under their wing on a free-flowing bender through the Italian countryside in a scruffy intergenerational odyssey.

Director: Francesco Sossai
Producer: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Philipp Kreuzer, Cecilia Trautvetter
Screenwriter: Francesco Sossai, Adriano Candiago
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Vivo Film, Rai Cinema
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 16, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.7K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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