THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD
Special Features: Ticketholders for the 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. shows on Sun, June 14 are invited to enjoy a cocktail reception from 5:30 to 6:30, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Society of Washington, DC.
[LE CITTÀ DI PIANURA]
The bottom has fallen out for Carlobianchi and Doriano, two small-time Italian crooks. They have not 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 a free-flowing bender through time and space. DIR/SCR Francesco Sossai; SCR Adriano Candiago; PROD Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Philipp Kreuzer, Cecilia Trautvetter. Italy/Germany, 2025, color, 100 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, June 12, 2026
Genre: Crime comedy
