EXCLUSIVE: When one thinks of Swedish cinema, the pinnacle fills with photos of Ingmar Bergman films, the gritty punk noir The Lady With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, oh, and let’s not neglect the takedown of the Bourgeois in The Triangle of Unhappiness. However alongside comes this yr’s heartwarming and hysterical documentary, The Final Journey, from the nation’s unconventional TV journos Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson, wherein the previous is set to revive his 80-year previous, however ailing father’s joie de vivre.
Hammar units out to take Lars Hammar again to the French coastal city, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, the place the household made myriad reminiscences when dad wasn’t educating French to highschool college students. This entails the younger Hammar’s securement of an orange Renault, which was their summer time car. Check out the clip above wherein Filip actually places his dad behind the wheel. Filip will do no matter it takes to make his father glad: His dad was all the time amused by the feistiness of the French, particularly in site visitors. What does Filip do to make dad smile? He phases a faux battle between two French drivers. Wikingsson is alongside for the journey to assist make Lars’ desires come true.
Spoiler alert: Get a field of Kleenexes prepared as The Final Journey has an ending you don’t see coming. The film leaves viewers with a renewed sense of life. The duo filmmakers frequently hear tales from moviegoers that they too are actually taking their aged dad and mom on journeys now to make good on any vacancies of their lives.
The Final Journey at 400K admissions is the very best grossing documentary ever in Sweden. The pic made more cash than Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune: Half Two ($2M) within the nation.
