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)
Fanny & Alexander(Fanny och Alexander)
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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.
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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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