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Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)

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  • Sweden,
  • France,
  • West Germany
  • 1984

Director Ingmar Bergman
Cast Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Allan Edwall, Jan Malmsjö, Jarl Kulle
Genre Drama

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.

100

Variety by Staff

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.

100

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

A masterpiece.

100

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The movie is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is by Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.

100

Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr

One of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.

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.

90

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Bergman locates a generosity and élan that make F&A feel like his youngest film.