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The Last Sentence
Directed by
Jan Troell
2012
1h 44m
Not Rated
Drama
,
History
,
Biography
6.1
74%
43%
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A story based on the life of journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who alerted the Swedish public to the threat of Fascism in the 1930s.
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Cast of The Last Sentence
Jesper Christensen
Torgny Segerstedt
Pernilla August
Maja Forssman
Ulla Skoog
Puste Segerstedt
Peter Andersson
Christian Günther
Björn Granath
Axel Forssman
Lia Boysen
Estrid Levission
Maria Heiskanen
Pirjo
Kenneth Milldoff
Per Albin Hansson
Lennart Hjulström
Marcus Wallenberg
Birte Heribertson
Estrid Ancker
Johanna Troell
Ingrid Segerstedt
Åsa-Lena Hjelm
Ida
Marina Nyström
Hilda
Hanna Holmqvist
Eva Segerstedt
Pasi Ilvesviita
Tojje Segerstedt
Jan Tiselius
King Gustaf V
Ingvar Kjellson
Pehr Eklund
Per Gørvell
Mannheimer
Michael Segerström
Birger Bäckström
Christer Fjällström
Journalist
Lars Melin
Journalist
Göran Parkrud
Journalist
Frederik Nilsson
Journalist
Bengt C.W. Carlsson
Veterenary
Jan Holmquist
Official
Henric Holmberg
Gambler
Eddie Axberg
Handyman
Pierre Lindstedt
Handyman
Matti Hirvonen
Pianist
Filip Kucera
Young Segerstedt
Adam Lundgren
Hans Forssman
Malte Aronsson
Partygoer
Åke Hjortsten
Chauffeur
Lina Ljungqvist
Karin
Sonja Richter
Modern
Pär Brundin
The adjutant of the King Gustaf V (uncredited)
Peter Schreck
Industrialist
The Last Sentence Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Troell invokes '50's and '60's Swedish cinema: masterly black-and-white cinematography, philosophical angst, a lifeless marriage and loved ones visiting from the afterlife.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The great 83-year-old Swedish director Jan Troell specializes in movies about men of great stature in furious conflict with both their countries and themselves.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
A remarkably full-bodied and frank character study that illuminates the old saw about the political being personal in a genuinely unusual way.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's a thoughtful and workmanlike portrait, but a less than profoundly moving one.
Orange County Register
Michael Sragow
A master psychological filmmaker, Jan Troell, puts a towering anti-Nazi crusader under his microscope in the urgently compelling biopic The Last Sentence.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
This is a handsome movie, rich in period detail, but the stately pace slows to a crawl in the second half.
Chicago Daily Herald
Dann Gire
This well-intentioned tale never breaks free from a dry and visually anemic history lesson that could easily be adapted into a monotonous stage play.
Slant Magazine
David Lee Dallas
Though ambitiously busy, the film is also self-sabotaging and stagnant, showcasing its main character's struggles without interpreting them into a cohesive thesis.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Unfortunately, Troell chose to shoot the movie in digital black-and-white; the imagery seems anachronistic in its precision, undermining the period decor and clashing with the occasional low-grain newsreel footage of Nazis on the march.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Amazingly, Troell still operates his own camera. "The Last Sentence" was made digitally, and his attention to detail is remarkable.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A more sophisticated work than it appears about a man whose life was more complicated than the world knew.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
It's too bad that the movie can't find his pulse and instead delivers a tastefully bland, inert portrait of a man whose personal ugliness it acknowledges without excavating.
NPR
Ella Taylor
A richly detailed portrait of a great man riddled with flaws and undone by adulation.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's a must-see for those who have followed Mr. Troell's career, and a should-see for those who can look past its oddities to its cumulative power.
The New Republic
David Thomson
[Troell] is a great and restrained director, seldom extravagant or showy, but trusting of actors, dcor, and a relentless attention to mixed motives.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
We know what Segerstedt did, and Troell tries to ask why. What he ignores are the implications.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
[The film] offers a potentially intriguing study in high-minded political/moral obstinacy, but feels too claustrophobic -- and, finally, tediously like a one-man window on great events -- to fully come to dramatic life.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Exposes iconic anti-Nazi Swede's feet of clay-- a tangled personal life. Nuanced character study is a challenge to conventional portraits of heroism and challenging to watch.
Nerdist
Witney Seibold
Ultimately, The Last Sentence, despite the great performances and awesome visuals, gets too preoccupied with its own interpersonal drama and soap opera dynamics, eventually forgetting to address some of the bigger moral implications it hints at.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
With "The Last Sentence," veteran Swedish director Jan Troell serves up a well-mannered biography of a man known for anything but his restraint.
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