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Sweden, France, West Germany · 1982
3h 8m
Director Ingmar Bergman
Starring Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Allan Edwall, Ewa Fröling
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
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Fanny and Alexander live a happy life with their loving parents, who run a local theatre. When their father dies unexpectedly, their mother gets remarried to a stern bishop. The siblings must adjust to the bishop's abuses while maintaining their vivid imagination and innocence.
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)
The result was one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Bergman locates a generosity and élan that make F&A feel like his youngest film.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
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.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
A masterpiece.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The movie is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is by Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.
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