100
Boston Globe
One of his (Bergman's) most life-affirming films.
Fanny & Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
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- Sweden,
- France,
- West Germany
- 1982
- · 188m
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Bertil Guve,
Pernilla Allwin,
Allan Edwall,
Ewa Fröling,
Erland Josephson,
Jan Malmsjö
Genre
Drama,
Fantasy,
Mystery
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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What are critics saying?
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
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.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The movie is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is by Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
A masterpiece.
100
Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr
The result was one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.
100
Variety by Staff (Not Credited)
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
Boston Globe by Damon Smith
One of his (Bergman's) most life-affirming films.
90
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Bergman locates a generosity and élan that make F&A feel like his youngest film.
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
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
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)
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