Fest Track On Sirk TV Interview: THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD [Cannes Film Festival 2025] - Part I - video Dailymotion

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Writer/Director Francesco Sossai talks to Fest Track about humor and context 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.

00:32For me, the tone is not something that I want to impose to a film.

00:37Like I don't start like saying it has to be a comedy or a drama.

00:41I don't care particularly about kind of boxes, let's say, but I'm more like I try to find

00:50the voice of the character, first of all, and then the voice inform me on how the film

00:55is going to be, you know, so I don't try to have a tone of the film from outside.

00:59But I try to find it from inside, like, what's the voice of the characters?

01:02And then I understand that maybe, yeah, how to write it and, but there is comedy and drama

01:09and it's, I like the ambiguity of genre mostly.

01:13Like, I don't like when a film is just one film.

01:16What the hell, this beer?

01:17You know what?

01:18You know what?

01:19It's strange.

01:20Eh?

01:21Excuse me, signorina, excuse me, but this beer has a strange taste.

01:28An alcoholic.

01:29Eh?

01:30Eh?

01:31Eh?

01:32Eh?

01:33Eh?

01:34Eh?

01:35Eh?

01:36Eh?

01:37Eh?

01:38Actually, for me it was a process, I went a lot around bars and for a lot of years and

01:57I would like take note on my phone, like I have a huge note of dialogue I heard in bars.

02:02In Italy?

02:03Yeah, yeah, in Italy, in Northern Italy.

02:05And slowly I got to have like a, you know, I could catch a musicality of some voices that

02:12interested me and so I developed the two characters like this and at some point with me, for me

02:23and my co-writer was extremely clear who was who, even if they, on paper, you know, they

02:28don't have a, they're different, but they're different just in what they say, you know, in

02:34the script, you don't have that feeling of physicality.

02:40And then when I cast them, of course, this thing became sharper and sharper and sharper

02:45also because Sergio is very good with voice.

02:48The one playing Carlo Bianchi is very good with finding a voice for the character.

02:53And Pierpaolo is a super famous rock singer in Italy.

02:58So he has his own distinct voice, but it adapted perfectly to the dialogue.

03:03So.

03:04L'aeroporto si chiama di Venezia.

03:06E sta a Treviso.

03:08Per incolare i turisti.

03:11Ok.

03:12Come arriva qua da Treviso?

03:15Andiamo a prenderlo noi.

03:20Eh?

03:21Tocca che andiamo a dormire subito perché se no domani non ci sveglieremo mai.

03:26Eh no.

03:27E' l'ultima?

03:29No, no.

03:30No, no.

03:31No, no.

03:32We looked for a lot of time for this look and at some point we found it.

03:46For me inspiration was Bruno Gantz in The American Friend by Wim Wenders.

03:51I love the stash.

03:53And so I tried to have that, but more worn down, let's say.

03:57Yeah.

03:58No, but the physicality as well for dancing.

04:00Ah, yeah.

04:01Like when they're trying to get the young man.

04:03Yeah, for the dancing I went to like a country fair in my hometown.

04:07And there was this guy dancing like crazy but alone.

04:11And I filmed it and I sent it to the actor and said okay.

04:15Approach this as if it were like a choreography.

04:18So study the movement and do it exactly like this.

04:21And so he studied that video of that guy that was dancing in that way.

04:25Let's see if we can get the last one.

04:27Let's see if we can get the last one.

04:28Well, it's not alcohol.

04:29Eh, what did you do?

04:30The last one.

04:31What did you do?

04:32What did you do?

04:35Carlo Bianchi?

04:39Let's see if we can get the last one.

04:41Let's see if we can get the last one.

04:55As far as playing drunk, when we went into rehearsing for the film,

05:01we had a long process of rehearsing.

05:04Then I told them that when you're drunk, the process you have

05:09is not to show other people that you're drunk.

05:12So I asked them not to show to the other people to try all the time

05:16to walk straight because that's what you do when you're drunk.

05:19You want to walk straight and you want to look like you as if you were not drunk.

05:24And that's what I asked them to do.

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