Run time: 98 mins

A pleasant Italian gem on drinking buddies, ageing and wistful flavours of life

Francesco Sossai’s dramedy is a about a boozy car trip with small-time ex-criminals who are now old and broke, but mostly still living for the moment. Carlo (Sergio Romano) and Dori (Pierpaolo Capovilla) are in a search for another “last” drink, life as a perpetual bar crawl. To them, the party is never quite over.

The olden days seem to have slipped away from them rapidly. And the financial crisis of 2008 has probably been rough on them as a pair who burned through whatever cash they possessed. If only they could dig up the sizeable chunk of money that their old friend buried somewhere in town before he left for Argentina. Maybe they will one day, right after that last drink.

Most might think of a last drink as a way to cap off an evening, but for Carlo and Dori, the eternal search for a last drink is a search for an evening that never ends. The Last One for the Road has humour, a heart and a melancholic streak.