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The Last Kiss (Italian: L'ultimo bacio [ˈlultimo ˈbatʃo]) is a 2001 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gabriele Muccino.

It was remade into The Last Kiss in 2006 by Tony Goldwyn starring Zach Braff and Rachel Bilson.

A sequel to the film (Italian: Baciami ancora; English: Kiss me again) was released in Italy in February 2010.

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Synopsis

A wife, a child, a house ... it all seems like too much for a guy who's afraid to grow up! But Carlo is not alone. All of his buddies are suffering their own growing pains, and none of them seem ready to settle down without a fight.



Cast

Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudio Santamaria, Giorgio Pasotti, Marco Cocci, Pierfrancesco Favino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Regina Orioli, Daniela Piazza



Movie Review

The Last Kiss

August 16, 2002

FILM REVIEW; Love, Italian Style, but, Oh, Such Complications

By Dave Kehr

One of Italy's highest-grossing films for 2000, Gabriele Muccino's ''Last Kiss,'' was promoted there as ''the story of all love stories.'' The picture does do its best to be inclusive: it interweaves three different tales of three different generations trapped in three different situations -- which means, of course, that it can be marketed to three different demographics. Thus are nations united.



The central figure, in screen time and star power, is Carlo, a young professional played by the reigning Italian heartthrob, Stefano Accorsi. Carlo lives in a cozy, fashionable neighborhood -- one that suggests Marin County more than Rome -- with his longtime girlfriend, Giulia (the talented Giovanna Mezzogiorno). When Giulia announces that she's pregnant, Carlo goes into the familiar midlife tailspin. Is it time to abandon the dreams and freedoms of youth and settle into adult respectability?



He's not getting an encouraging example from Giulia's mother, Anna (Stefania Sandrelli, a legendary beauty of the 1960's, here treated rather cruelly by Mr. Muccino's harsh lighting). Jolted by the idea of becoming a grandmother, she leaves her seemingly indifferent husband and decides to go in search of the romantic possibilities that eluded her in her youth.



Deeper in the background are three college buddies -- Adriano (Giorgio Pasotti), Paolo (Claudio Santamaria) and Alberto (Marco Cocci) -- who hang out together and plot ways to break out of the various confines of their existence. When bungee jumping proves not quite enough to erase the pain of a nagging wife or a dying father, they pool their resources and buy a camper. Their dream is to escape, ''Easy Rider''-style, into the wide world of freewheeling adventure.



Mr. Muccino, who directed from his own screenplay, is a canny crowd pleaser, and ''The Last Kiss,'' which opens today in Manhattan, provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex. Like many of the contemporary love stories that fuel the American independent cinema, ''The Last Kiss'' is driven at its deepest level by feelings of self-pity. Carlo uses his sense of entrapment to justify an affair with an outrageously young and beautiful high school student, Francesca (Martina Stella), while Anna uses her sense of neglect to justify the reopening of an old affair with a teacher (played, in an unbilled guest appearance, by Sergio Castellitto, one of Europe's most gifted performers).



But ultimately Mr. Muccino trivializes Carlo's and Anna's indiscretions; they were just necessary steps toward the final realization of how rich and satisfying their lives actually are, and are easily transcended and easily forgiven. Alienation shifts into complacency in record time as the characters suddenly discover that they are living in the best of all possible worlds: the world of Silvio Berlusconi's Italy, with its promise of elegant interior design and sedated consciences.