On the road to nowhere in Italy

Two wide-sodden thieves (Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla) wander the Veneto region of Italy in The Last One for the Road. Romano's Carlobianchi and Capovilla's Doriano have become low-level con artists since their lucrative business, selling stolen sunglasses, crumbled. The business hit the skids when Genio (Andrea Pennachi) fled to Argentina to avoid jail. He seemed to be the trio's mastermind. Now, Carlobianchi and Doriano are on their way to meet Genio, who's returning to Italy. En route, they pick up a reserved young architecture student (Filippo Scotti) who they introduce to their free-form world. The two men improvise various schemes, most of them illegal or unethical. With their reluctant protege offering help, they pose as a construction team for a count who's trying to stave off the building of a road through his garden. At various other times, Scotti's character imagines that he's Genio, assuming a more assertive role in the proceedings. Director Francesco Sossai keeps…