‘The Last One for the Road’ Trailer – Two Crooks and a Student Cross Paths in Francesco Sossai’s Bittersweet Road Movie

From Italian filmmaker Francesco Sossai comes The Last One for the Road, a boozy road movie that follows two middle-aged drifters and a young architecture student navigating the Venetian countryside.

Starring in the movie are Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano, and Pierpaolo Capovilla.

The Last One for the Road made its world premiere in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, before continuing its festival run at major international showcases, including the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Vancouver International Film Festival.

The film is set for a U.S. release beginning in New York on Friday, May 1, at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center, then opens in Los Angeles Friday, May 8, at Laemmle Royal, before expanding to select cities nationwide on May 15.

Here is the synopsis: 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 (Filippo Scotti, The Hand of God), 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.

In its review, Variety described the film as a “pleasant Italian gem” that is “enchanting even when it briefly veers into predictable territory.” The review notes, “… there is still a sense of disarming comfort in the film’s down-to-earth demeanor, and Giulio’s rewarding if predictable arc.”

Watch the official trailer for The Last One for the Road above.