''Last Night of Amore'' ( it, L’ultima notte di Amore) is a 2023 Italian

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film written and directed by

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. The film starring

Pierfrancesco Favino Pierfrancesco Favino (; August 24, 1969) is an Italian actor, voice actor and producer. He has appeared in more than fifty European and American movies and television series since the early 1990s, including '' The Prince of Homburg'' (1997), '' T ...

Linda Caridi Linda Caridi (born 11 April 1988) is an Italian television, stage and film actress. Life and career Born in Milan into a family of Sicilian and Calabrian origins, Caridi graduated from the and started her career on stage, in which she was amo ...

, Antonio Gerardi,

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, and Camilla Semino Favro, depicts the story of Franco Amore, who is writing his farewell speech on the night of his retirement. Nobody knew, though, that night would turn out to be the longest and most difficult of his entire professional life. It was selected for the

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in the Berlinale Special Gala, where it had its world premiere on 24 February 2023. It was released in cinemas on 9 March 2023. The film was shortlisted for submission to

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as Italian entry for Best International Feature Film in September 2023.

Cast

as Franco Amore *

as Viviana * Antonio Gerardi as Cosimo Forcella *

as Dino * Camilla Semino Favro as Carabiniere Daria Criscito * Martin Montero Baez as Ernesto * Wang Fei as Feifei * Pang Bo as Mission * Shi Yang Shi as Chun-Ba * Xu Ruichi as Gang Ma * Mauro Milone * Carlo Gallo * Mauro Negri * Fabrizio Rocchi * Katia Mironova * Chandra Perkins

Soundtrack

# "Fate Tiptoes to a Party" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Last Night" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Fathers" by Santi Pulvirenti # "The Mechanics of Amore" by Santi Pulvirenti # "The Ambition of Being Honest" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Spectrum" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Alba" by Santi Pulvirenti # "The Brain of a Dying Man" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Melò Dia" by Santi Pulvirenti # "The Sky Is Looking Down at You" by Santi Pulvirenti # "The Carp" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Don't Do It" by Santi Pulvirenti # "Milano da bere" by Santi Pulvirenti

Release

''Last Night of Amore'' had its world premiere on 24 February 2023 as part of the

, in the Berlinale Special Gala. It was released in cinemas on 9 March 2023. It was invited at the

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in 'World Cinema' section and was screened on 7 October 2023.

Reception

Box office

The film opened with US$1,027,372, and it is the eleventh highest-grossing film released in the year 2023 with gross of US$3,503,276 at the Italian box office.

Critical response

On the

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website, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. Vittoria Scarpa reviewing for Cineuropa praised the performance of

and Linda Caridi writing, "Favino's acting talents are well known, and to note here in particular is the performance of Linda Caridi, who gracefully brings to life a very complex and multifaceted female character." Writing about the director and scriptwriter

, Scarpa stated, " i Stefanodirects this thriller/drama with a steady pulse, succeeding in conveying the right amount of suspense and subterranean tension, and with a good narrative rhythm, effectively using the device of re-enacting the same scenes from different points of view." Lee Marshall for

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writing a positive review said, "It’s been a while since we’ve seen such a stylish Italian crime thriller."

References

External links

* in Italian *
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at Berlinale * {{Andrea Di Stefano 2023 films 2023 crime thriller films Italian crime thriller films 2020s Italian-language films 2020s Italian films