The aliens have just announced that there are a few days left until they land on Earth, in a small village in Tuscany, but no one seems to give the news any weight. The only one who shows concern is Luca Bertacci, a lonely man whose only distraction is working in a bingo hall. In his debut behind the camera Gipi challenges cinematographic conformism by staging Giacomo Monti's graphic novel Nessuno si farà del male with "fantasy-neorealist" features. "L'ultimo terrestre is a masterpiece: for Radovic's photography and Vigliar's music, because his longtime companion, the protagonist Gabriele Spinelli, is a face, a talent that cannot be forgotten. Because this debut director with DIY shorts and long films behind him in Pisa and extraordinary pages of drawn literature, takes risks with ethics and aesthetics" (Boris Sollazzo). It's really true, an extraterrestrial has fallen on Italian cinema.
Gian Alfonso Pacinotti (Gipi) was born in Pisa in 1963. In 1994 he began publishing cartoons and short stories in the satirical magazine Cuore. The first comic stories appeared in the monthly magazine Blue and then in other Italian newspapers and newspapers. For the publishing house Coconino Press he has created several books: from Esterno Notte to Appunti per una storia di guerra, awarded as Best comic of the year at the Angoulême International Festival in 2006. Among his other works, Questa è la stanza, the series Baci dalla Provincia, S., La Mia Vita Disegnata Male, the anthology Diario di fiume and Verticali. In July 2011, Omnibus Gipi, a paperback collection of his major works, was released in bookstores. Gipi is also an illustrator for the newspaper La Repubblica and collaborates with the weekly Internazionale. L’ultimo terrestre is his first film.