Fanny and Alexander

5.00
    Fanny and Alexander
    1982

    Synopsis

    As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.

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    Cast

    • Pernilla AllwinFanny Ekdahl
    • Bertil GuveAlexander Ekdahl
    • Jan MalmsjöBishop Edvard Vergerus
    • Börje AhlstedtCarl Ekdahl
    • Anna BergmanHanna Schwartz
    • Gunn WållgrenHelena Ekdahl
    • Kristina AdolphsonSiri
    • Erland JosephsonIsak Jacobi
    • Mats BergmanAron Retzinsky
    • Jarl KulleGustav Adolf Ekdahl

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      The result was one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.
    • 100

      Variety

      Emerges as a sumptuously produced period piece that is also a rich tapestry of childhood memoirs and moods, fear and fancy, employing all the manners and means of the best of cinematic theatrical from high and low comedy to darkest tragedy with detours into the gothic, the ghostly and the gruesome. (Review of Original Release)
    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      A masterpiece.
    • 100

      Boston Globe

      One of his (Bergman's) most life-affirming films.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The movie is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is by Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      If the uncut Fanny and Alexander is Bergman's greatest work, as I think, it's because it's his most inclusive. He shows almost everything: all his moods, conflicts, styles and many of his favorite actors.
    • 90

      TV Guide Magazine

      The results are quite frightening and far superior to the lengthy gloom and doom that fill many earlier Bergman films. A magical movie, Fanny and Alexander is likely to be the achievement for which Bergman will be most remembered. (Review of Original Release)
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Bergman locates a generosity and élan that make F&A feel like his youngest film.

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