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In the aftermath of Europe’s 2008 economic collapse, director Francesco Sossai paints a landscape of fading prosperity and stubborn hope. Against the sun-bleached fields and silent villas of Veneto, we meet Carlobianchi and Doriano, two fifty-somethings for whom every drink is “the last one”—until the next. Their goal is simple: unearth a buried stash of cash, celebrate with one final round, and perhaps reclaim a shred of bygone grandeur.

Into this twilight world stumbles Giulio, a reticent architecture student whose shyness mirrors Italy’s own tension between tradition and reinvention. As the trio barrel through bars, brothels and dusty backroads, the film’s humor and elegiac moods swirl together like prosecco and bitters. Debuting in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard, The Last One for the Road signals Sossai’s ambition to fuse road-movie tropes with a distinctly Italian sensibility—one that resonates far beyond national borders.

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There is a kind of sadness that comes from living in a restless state of Fomo — or fear of missing out, as the acronym goes. The experiences you’d squander if you didn’t show up to an occasion, the next song you wouldn’t hear if you left a party too early and so on. In Italian filmmaker Francesco Sossai’s loose-limbed and quietly enchanting sophomore feature “The Last One for the Road,” lively 50-somethings Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla) seem to have invented the perfect cure for Fomo by cheating it perpetually. To these penniless and amiably drunken men, every boozy beverage is always the last one — truly, for real this time, the last one — until the next one that usually comes right after. To them, the party is never quite over.

Thankfully, Carlobianchi and Doriano never come across as leachy, intoxicated creeps (the way hard-drinking...

Sky Italia and Gomorrah producer Cattleya have unveiled the first look at their forthcoming big-budget drama Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome, which is being produced in archaic Latin.

The ITV-owned producer is producing the ten-part series, which was created by Matteo Rovere, who directed The First King feature. It marks Rovere’s television debut. The ten-part series is co-produced by Rovere’s Groenlandia and filming started in Rome last month.

It stars Andrea Arcangeli (Trust), Marianna Fontana (Indivisible) and Francesco Di Napoli (Piranhas) with Rovere directing alongside Michele Alhaique and Enrico Maria Artale. It is written by Rovere, Filippo Gravino (The First King) and Guido Iuculano (A Quiet Life).

The series is set in eighth century B.C., in a primitive and brutal world in which man’s fate is decided by the merciless power of nature and the gods. It is the story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus,...

Gomorrah producer Cattleya is making a TV drama about Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome, in archaic Latin for Sky Italia.

The ITV-owned producer is producing Romulus, created by Matteo Rovere, who directed The First King feature. It marks Rovere’s television debut. The ten-part series is co-produced by Rovere’s Groenlandia and will start filming in Rome in early June.

It will star Andrea Arcangeli (Trust), Marianna Fontana (Indivisible) and Francesco Di Napoli (Piranhas) with Rovere directing alongside Michele Alhaique and Enrico Maria Artale. It is written by Rovere, Filippo Gravino (The First King) and Guido Iuculano (A Quiet Life).

The series is set in eighth century B.C., in a primitive and brutal world in which man’s fate is decided by the merciless power of nature and the gods. It is the story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, as seen through the...