L'+ultimo+Bacio

Title: **L'ultimo Bacio** One **Last Kiss** (USA) **The Last Kiss** (International: English title) The director and writer is **Gabriele Muccino**.

He’s not alone because all around him, his friends and family are looking for an escape from their lives, running away from recent or even decades-old marriages, from any form of committment, or from the simple circumstances of their lives. Carlo’s best friend **Adriano** wants to leave his wife and baby, certain that the arrival of the child has ruined everything. He has just had a son and has problems with taking the responsibilities of fatherhood, while his wife Livia (Sabrina Impacciatore) becomes very connected to the baby, neglecting their marriage.
 * Carlo** (Stefano Accorsi) is a twenty-nine-year-old man who works in an advertisement agency . He has a beautiful and pregnant girlfriend **Giulia** (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and they have been living together for three years. At a friend’s wedding, he sees **Francesca** (Martina Stella), a gorgeous 18-year old, who triggers a crisis in Carlo’s (obviously tenuous) fidelity to Giulia. His relationship with Giulia moves into a crisis, since he is not ready to reach adulthood.


 * Alberto** (Marco Cocci) is a dreadlocked casanova who seems to live on one-night stands. He has no ties with any woman, limiting to use them sexually.


 * Paolo** (Claudio Santamaria) has a passion for his former lover but he is rejected by this woman. He is desperate and wants to escape everything in his life, and convinces Adriano and Alberto to buy a camper van and head off for Africa.

Meanwhile, Giulia's mother **Anna** (Stefania Sandrelli) has a middle-age crisis, jeopardizing her marriage

Muccino’s world is a comfortable, impeccably middle class urban world, seemingly free of the bounds of church and family that once defined life in Italy. Everyone in this world talks about freedom all the time, but it’s hard to see anything they do as truly free. All of them are slaves to a self-created myth of youth and its inverse, a gnawing dread of age and a life defined by routine. Freedom is ultimately just escape, but no one knows where it will lead. Even Carlo’s trio of friends end up settling on Africa for lack of a better idea, sealing their pact by getting ridiculous lip and nose piercings. Gabriele Muccino has touched a universal nerve with his observation of the changing attitudes towards marriage and the fact that more and more singles are delaying entrance into a committed relationship. Muccino seems to be.exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they don't have, and how this gets us in trouble.

Carlo and Anna ultimately recoil from their terrifying and lonely new freedom and return to the families they were so desperate to abandon. Muccino seems happy enough to send them there, but hedges his bet with a few, final hints that the “happily ever after” ending isn’t to be trusted. It’s a barbed end to a beautifully shot, perfectly acted, and slyly despairing film.

Watch the trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ0qB8aIjs
 * Themes**: family, commitment and fear of commitment, first love, forgiveness, infidelity, jealousy, love, sex, marriage, midlife crisis, pregnancy, responsibility.

The **soundrack** of the movie is the beautiful song of Carmen Consoli "L'ultimo Bacio". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORPc_n82qPw

Alice Calabrese

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