Rough evening for the Italian policeman played by Pierfrancesco Favino in Last night in Milan by Andrea Di Stefano. This civil servant will see his life change just before taking a well-deserved retirement after thirty-five years of career full of integrity. “I met many police officers to prepare my film, explains to 20 minutes the director of this thriller that allows you to discover an unknown Italy. I discovered that they could take enormous risks for a pittance and that some are even forced to take a second job to survive. »
The precariousness of the police is at the center of a muscular story carried by a charismatic actor. Pierfrancesco Favio, recently noticed in The traitor by Marco Bellocchio and Nostalgia by Matteo Garrone has a lot to do with the success of Last night in Milan. “Pierfrancesco Favino has the density of great Hollywood actors,” says Andrea Di Stefano. He reminds me of both James Stewart and Benicio Del Toro as he occupies the screen in a natural way. »
Among the cars
The director of Paradise Lost highlights the performance of the actor with a nervous staging that spares neither the character nor the spectator. “Andrea Di Stefano sent me into the heart of the action, recalls Pierfrancesco Favino. I have rarely experienced such intense filming but it was the price to pay for the public to feel in their guts the nightmare that the hero is living. A bewildering sequence on a highway where the actor is grazed by cars is a fine example of the strength of this fascinating film. We take up the cause of this man, embodied and filmed with the same remarkable conviction.