Francesco Sossai
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Trailer Premiere: Francesco Sossai’s The Last One for the Road
Filmmaker is happy to share the trailer premiere of Italian director Francesco Sossai’s second feature, The Last One for the Road. The film depicts the unlikely friendship between two alcoholic petty criminals, Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla, One Dimensional Man bandmember in his film debut), and a soft-spoken architecture student named Giulio (Filippo Scotti). Loosely inspired by his the filmmaker’s own experience and rooted in his love for the northern Veneto region, The Last One for the Road premiered last year in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, where Leonardo Goi sat down with […]
by Natalia Keogan on Apr 3, 2026 -
“There’s a Reason We Call Them ‘Films’ and Not ‘SD Cards'”: Francesco Sossai on His Cannes-Premiering The Last One for the Road
The film festival world can be so depressingly homogenous that to come across a title straying beyond its aesthetic and storytelling conventions is nothing short of exhilarating. The Last One for the Road is one such film. Conversant as it may be with a long and varied set of influences—from 1960s Italian comedies all the way to Aki Kaurismäki—Francesco Sossai’s second feature synthesizes its touchstones into something that feels bracingly alive. It heralds its writer-director as a new talent to watch, and confirms that the most exciting Italian cineastes working today are those shooting a long way away from the […]
by Leonardo Goi on May 25, 2025
