“One Last Kiss” (L’ultimo bacio) is about the fear of growing up. Fear of growing up when you are thirty, and fear of getting old when you’re fifty. The characters whose stories intertwine in the film all have this desperate, teen-age need. It’s the need to stay light, not to feel weighed down by obligations, conventions, that society and even age impose on us.

There is the common desire to flee in everyone. Flee towards something else, as long as it is unknown and far away. Carlo  and Adriano try different ways of fleeing from a family life that makes them feel blocked, immobile. Stuck in a routine that flattens everything. 

Anna, the fifty year-old mother of Giulia, Carlo’s girlfriend, tries to escape from her age and a marriage that has made her unhappy. She needs to feel that her life is still moving. She wants to go back to feeling the great emotion of being in love. She wants to become young again. She desperately wants to live. Thus she is trying to flee too. But in vain. Or maybe she simply doesn’t have the patience to wait for something new to finally happen.

Paolo, Carlo’s restless friend, his father dying, a small family company where he fulfils his family duties and a girlfriend who has left him. With the idea of fleeing in a camper along with his friends, he tries to find a solution to his profound restlessness, that he calls unhappiness. So he and his two friends Adriano and Alberto , decide to get their lives moving again. In a physical sense. They leave. They are the only ones who accomplish that idea of fleeing, that from the beginning was common to nearly all the characters in the film.  

Running time
100 min
Color
Y
Type
COM
Film code
2361