THE LAST NIGHT
Italy, 2018 - 87’
Direction: Francesco Barozzi / Screenplay: Francesco Barozzi, Luca Speranzoni / Producer: Francesco Barozzi, Giuseppe Sepe, Luca Speranzoni, Nicola Xella / Cast: Beatrice Schiros, Giuseppe Sepe, Francesca Turrini, Luca Mazzamurro / Cinematography: Nicola Xella / Music: Luca Perciballi / Set Designer: Emanuele D’Antonio / Editor: Francesco Barozzi, Domenico Guidetti, Nicola Xella
"The last night" is Bea's story, a woman in the midst of a personal crisis that is forced to leave the big city and move back to the country house where she was born, and where her brother and sister still live in abject poverty. Shaken by their living conditions and by her new rural reality, she nonetheless endeavors to fit in with the help of Emi, her meek but weird younger sister. Together they take care of the animals and plants of the small farmhouse, as their brother Franco works at a nearby breeding farm. When Bea invites them to change their lifestyle, she comes into direct conflict with Franco, who is slowly revealed to be quick-tempered and cruel. Bea discovers that her two siblings share the same ambiguous inclinations, and more than one secret. And she discovers that the most dangerous secret of all still lingers around them: in every word spoken, in the fields all around, in the foundations of the old house itself, and in their shared past.
Francesco Barozzi was born in Modena in 1982. With his first short films, in particular with the trilogy Diesis and Ellie, is selected in Locarno, Bolzano and Milan. In 2012 he founded, together with others Emilian directors, the Emilia earthquake collective and in 2014 Tellurica came out - Tales from the crater, film at episodes on the tragedy of the Emilian earthquake; his short film is entitled Anniversary, the protagonists are Roberto Herlitzka and Beatrice Schiros. Also in 2014, with the documentary film Tempo Vivo Tempo Morto, no-budget self-production signed together with Nicola Xella, wins the section "Wild Card Italia" at the Overlook Rome Film Festival. In 2018 his feature film last night, inspired by local news and interpreted by Giuseppe Sepe, Francesca Turrini and Beatrice Schiros, is part of the official selection of films shown at the Turin Film Festival and gets several awards. The short film The Occasion by Rita, written by Natalia Guerrieri and photographed by Nicola Xella, is played by Beatrice Schiros, the Coppa Volpi Elena Cotta and Giusi Merli.
Together with his collaborators, in 2019 he shot the short film Salse Connection, which he had as protagonist Miro Landoni.
