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Writer/Director Francesco Sossai talks to Fest Track about tone and geography in regards to his new film "The Last One For The Road" playing the Un Certain Regard section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.

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00:00This is Tim Wasberg from Festtrek on Surf TV.

00:29I'm here in Cannes, France for the Cannes Film Festival.

00:32Yeah, because in memory, I always find that in memory, you tend to have a better version

00:40of yourself.

00:45So you don't have all the, I don't know, my projection in my memory is that it's a better

00:51version of myself.

00:53I tend to, even if when I'm battered down in my memory, you know, when I was like in

00:59a bad period of my life, I looked a bit, I look a bit holy in my memory, you know, to

01:04myself.

01:06And that's how I approach the memory like that.

01:08They see themselves in those memory as if they were some sort of like heroes, like a myth.

01:19And that's how I approach memory.

01:20I didn't care about the truth of memory because there is no truth in memory, you know, it's

01:26always like a projection.

01:29And when we do in the film the trick that Giulio thinks himself as Genio, it's also about this.

01:35It's like when two people tell you a story, you place yourself in the story, you imagine

01:40with them.

01:41So me and my co-writer, we write a lot of scene and they're separate.

02:09And we, we work a lot on the scene because I like when a scene is very well developed

02:13and very, very like long scene and they have a, you know, a whole development inside.

02:19And then basically we draw a map like the one that is in the film that they draw at the

02:27bar.

02:28And we basically follow that map.

02:29So we say, okay, what's happening here?

02:31Where are they when they're here?

02:33We composite it like we didn't have a clear method about this.

02:38And for me it was funny to a bit make fun of the hero's journey, you know, because Giulio

02:46goes into some sort of hero's journey, you know, they visit the land of the dead.

02:52He went to church, you know, like, it's like the odyssey for him, but it's a drunken odyssey

02:58that leads ultimately to no change.

03:00change, I think.

03:01He has a new memory at the end of the scene.

03:03He has a memory of that night, but I don't know if it changed.

03:07But is it the secret of the world's world or is it your world?

03:19What difference has it been?

03:21Let's see.

03:22Look, Dory!

03:23Come, come, come.

03:24White, red, Dory?

03:25White, white, red, and a pan.

03:28Put a sainte or chicken.

03:30The most beautiful day of shooting of my life was the one in the Brion Memorial,

03:41back in the tomb, the cemetery, because it's a very special place to me and also because

03:47it's in my region but is inspired by Japanese architecture and I love Japanese cinema and so

03:55I decided to shoot the day on the tatami shot technique by osu so that day I was the whole

04:02day kneeling down on a tatami and we had the camera at my height and we couldn't move it like we

04:09couldn't change the height or the lens and so we were moving the camera inside the space

04:14and that thing it's incredible because when when I watch the film it really looks like

04:18we're in japan for a second

04:25It's the last one for us, it's the last one for us, it's the last one for us, it's the last one for yesterday.

04:28Invece for me today, I have to go to the station, take the train, go home, take the computer

04:34and go back here to do the review. So, where are you going?

04:39In Mestre.

04:43I don't know what it is, but also with my short film that I did before, I was here in Kenzhen,

04:49for that film it was crazy because it was about a memory of mine at a birthday party of a friend

04:54when I was young but I shot it like Italian 70s horror and I have a lot of people telling me in

05:00these years oh wow it was exactly like this I felt exactly the same thing I have the exact same memory

05:07I was like wow okay and this time also like now with this film there are a lot of people that after

05:14the screening were coming to me with tears and saying it really destroyed me because I know how they feel

05:20and I felt like I was either the student or the two of them like there's a lot of people having

05:28a strong emotional reaction to the film and this is interesting for me we're all nostalgic about our

05:35past and we always see ourselves in a different way and we always have the feeling that we lost

05:41something all the time and I think this feeling of having lost something it's universal in every one of us

05:59so

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