The Last One for The Road (2025) Movie Drinking Game
Take a Drink: for each new drinking spot
Take a Drink: every time the friends flight arrival is mentioned
Take a Drink: for every petty crime or con
Take a Drink: for architecture
Do a Shot: for underwhelming returns
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) –
Italy’s Lost Generation consists of men born in the 1970s, who experienced a time of intense economic growth in their youth, but who saw all of that practically disappear after the 2008 financial crisis, an event Italy is still feeling the reverberations of.
The Last One for the Road follows two denizens of that generational terrain on an epic bender across Venice and its environs
A Toast
Francesco Sossai brings real energy to the filmmaking here, full of interesting music choices, idiosyncratic cuts, and throwback stylistic choices. This is a film steeped with nostalgia, even for memories that perhaps never happened. Shooting on film and using techniques like rear projection melds nicely with that mindset- this feels almost like a 70s arthouse Italian film at times.
Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla) feel like the kind of barflies you may find in nearly any corner of the planet, but there’s some degree of wisdom at the bottom of the glass, and in pursuing the next full one. These guys can make friends with everyone- from a bachelorette party to a lovelorn bookworm who they quickly take under their wing/halfway kidnap. “We know fuck all, but we know everything” makes sense coming from the mouths of these sadsack philosophers with a contagious joie de vivre
Beer Two
The plot, as it is, is playful and fittingly meandering, fitting the lifestyle of these short-range vagabonds even as you’re sure they at least won’t be learning any lessons as they go.
Verdict
The Last One for the Road is a lively, grungy depiction of a few days in the life of a couple of Venetian petty criminals, living life as fully as they can.
