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
- 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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