Nestore l'ultima corsa (1994) User Reviews

Better in retrospective

[stefano1488 · 6/10 · 20 June 2020]

Always detested Alberto Sordi; especially his last films were terrible. This is one of his last ones and at the time reviews were poor: bad acting, bad direction, overly sentimental. In retrospect, though it does have all these faults, I think it deserves to be reevaluated (and revalued). Certainly not original, definitely naive, not a masterpiece at all. But there is a genuine touch of sadness in this story of an old cabman who earns a living driving tourists on horse-drawn carriage rides in Rome and desperately tries to save the horse (which he doesn't own) from being slaughtered.