“The Last Journey” is a heartfelt investigation into the end we all face with our parents, and a peek into our own futures. At its release in March 2024, it was lauded in unison by Swedish critics as equal parts devastating and ground-breakingly humorous. In a desperate attempt to make his old, depressed father embrace life again, filmmaker Filip Hammar takes his dad on a surprise road trip to France, the same journey they made every summer during Filip’s childhood. Filip is confident his dad will become the joyous person he once was if he can re-live some of the best moments of his life, and the spur-of-the-moment methods Filip uses fuels the film with chaos, humor and, inevitably, sadness. This film is an honest look at death’s (inevitable) approach – a theme as universal as it gets. It's groundbreakingly odd, but still relatable and real. “The Last Journey” has taken Sweden by storm and recently became the biggest grossing documentary in the history of Swedish cinema (shattering the previous record from 1979). Please watch it, and find out why.
“The Last Journey” is a heartfelt investigation into the end we all face with our parents, and a peek into our own futures. At its release in March 2024, it was lauded in unison by Swedish critics as equal parts devastating and ground-breakingly humorous. In a desperate attempt to make his old, depressed father embrace life again, filmmaker Filip Hammar takes his dad on a surprise road trip to France, the same journey they made every summer during Filip’s childhood. Filip is confident his dad will become the joyous person he once was if he can re-live some of the best moments of his life, and the spur-of-the-moment methods Filip uses fuels the film with chaos, humor and, inevitably, sadness. This film is an honest look at death’s (inevitable) approach – a theme as universal as it gets. It's groundbreakingly odd, but still relatable and real. “The Last Journey” has taken Sweden by storm and recently became the biggest grossing documentary in the history of Swedish cinema (shattering the previous record from 1979). Please watch it, and find out why.