Fasten your Seatbelt: De Michele Embarks on a Bumpy First Ride
A thematic continuation of Alberto de Micheleʼs last short film, The Wolves (2011), for his feature length film debut, the Italian born filmmaker blends together the caper film sub-genre with what are crumbs of a semi-personal docu. The Last Ride of the Wolves explores the process of planning and executing a final hit by a gang of Italian professionals (known as the Wolves), and this debut works best as an exercise in aestheticism and experimentation rather than the true story account on which this is ultimately based on.
With very little exposition or character development, Pasquale (played by de Micheleʼs eponymous real-life father) is an old crook who nearly squandered his entire fortune on gambling, while Alberto, the director himself, doubles as Pasqualeʼs driver.…...
A thematic continuation of Alberto de Micheleʼs last short film, The Wolves (2011), for his feature length film debut, the Italian born filmmaker blends together the caper film sub-genre with what are crumbs of a semi-personal docu. The Last Ride of the Wolves explores the process of planning and executing a final hit by a gang of Italian professionals (known as the Wolves), and this debut works best as an exercise in aestheticism and experimentation rather than the true story account on which this is ultimately based on.
With very little exposition or character development, Pasquale (played by de Micheleʼs eponymous real-life father) is an old crook who nearly squandered his entire fortune on gambling, while Alberto, the director himself, doubles as Pasqualeʼs driver.…...
- 2/3/2022
- by Mladen Pechevski
- IONCINEMA.com
We've all seen several heist movies over the years, and we know the formula: if the plan gets explained, something goes wrong, if the plan is kept a secret, it seems to go wrong but Surprise, that was part of the plan and everything went right after all. Throw in some characterization for the thieves and, if time allows, the police, and you can make quite the thriller. It's almost a foolproof recipe, and used frequently for the past 70 years, in films and television series. So director Alberto De Michele is already to be commended for finding a unique angle into this sub-genre. In his debut feature The Last Ride of the Wolves (a follow-up of sorts to his 2011 short The Wolves), we...
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- 2/2/2022
- Screen Anarchy
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