Title: The last journey
Regi: Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson
Cast: Filip Hammar, Lars Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson, etc.
Can be viewed at: Bio
Grade: 5 out of 5
Lars Hammar just sits there in his darkness.
As a teacher, he used to step when the students graduated, now he can hardly stand up from his old Belgian leather armchair.
But Filip has a plan. To revive the father by recreating one of their nice family vacations. The only question is, is it too late?
“Emotional-Tom Alandh-documentary-meets-laughfest”.
Do you think that sounds cheesy? Then I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong. So wrong.
It turns out to be the recipe for the best Swedish film since Triangle of Sadness.
Because “The Last Journey” is really funny.
Like when old Lars Hammar lights up when the French start arguing in traffic. Or when he wonders if it isn’t a bit slippery on the road anyway, on a hot summer day on the Riviera.
But beyond every fit of laughtersomething else piles up.
Like when Filip holds his father’s thin, thin hand while he is loaded into an ambulance. Or when we get to see the son fight back the tears in a restaurant, where the father can no longer lift his wine glass to his mouth.
It is fragile and incredibly crushing to see the power memory has over us humans.
At the preview in Umeå, I sit between an older lady and a fourteen-year-old boy. All three of us laugh and cry. Very.
“The final journey” is a film that makes one doubt whether top ratings are really enough, but here it comes anyway: five out of five in rating.
