When his girlfriend reveals to him that she is pregnant, Carlo is frightened by the responsibilities that await him, and ends up becoming infatuated with a young woman he met at a wedding, who appears to be an escape. Adriano, on the other hand, wants to escape from his family life. Anna, a single mother, tries to escape from her marriage with the desire to become young again.
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The Last Kiss is about the fear of growing up. The fear of growing up when you're thirty and the fear of growing old when you're fifty. The characters who intersect their stories within the film all have this desperate, adolescent need in common. It is the need to remain light, to not feel weighed down by obligations, by the conventions that society and even age impose on us. In everyone, there is the common desire to escape. Escape towards something else, as long as it is something unknown and far away. Carlo and Adriano try in different ways to escape from that family life that makes them feel stuck, immobile. Bogged down in a routine that flattens everything. Anna, the fifty-year-old mother of Giulia, Carlo's girlfriend, is trying to escape her age and a marriage that has made her unhappy. She needs to feel that her life is still moving. She wants to return to the great emotions of falling in love. She wants to turn young again. She desperately wants to live. And so she tries to escape as well. But it is in vain. Or maybe she simply doesn't have the patience to wait for something new to finally happen. Paolo, a restless friend of Carlo's, a dying father, has a small family business to which to return for his family duties, and a girlfriend who has left him, with the idea of an escape in a camper in which to involve even her friends, tries to find a solution to his profound restlessness, which he calls unhappiness. So, he and his two friends, Adriano and Alberto, decide to get their lives moving again. In a physical sense. And they will leave.
