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In Oscar Contender ‘The Last Journey,’ A Hero Rises From His Recliner – The Endearing Lars Hammar
The Swedish Oscar-contending documentary 'The Last Journey' celebrates an ordinary hero in Lars Hammar.
Seeing his dad begin to wither away, Filip decided the thing that might lift Lars’s spirits would be a road trip to the south of France, where the Hammar family had summered for many a year. As the kilometers go by and the companions near the picturesque seaside village of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Lars’s intrinsic quiet nobility emerges, the way he holds himself to such exacting ethical standards. En route to Beaulieu, they stop at a church where Lars wants to see a priest to get something off his chest – an action he took decades earlier for which he has long felt guilt and shame.
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