The Boston Globe by Damon Smith
One of Bergman's most life-affirming films.
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Sweden, France, West Germany · 1984-1985
1 seasons · Completed
87m, 96m, 78m, 60m
Director Ingmar Bergman
Starring Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Allan Edwall
Genre Drama
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Ten-year-old Alexander and his sister, Fanny, are the youngest of the large bourgeois Ekdahl family, which is still reeling from the death of their father. When their mother remarries to a prominent bishop, they are forced to move in with his family, where Alexander suffers from the man's abusive and domineering behavior.
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The Boston Globe by Damon Smith
One of Bergman's most life-affirming films.
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.
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.