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Fanny and Alexander (1983)
From Amazon:
Through the wide eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve), we witness the great delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family—a sprawling, convivial bourgeois clan living in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Intended as Ingmar Bergman’s swan song, Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) is the legendary filmmaker’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional rigor with immense joyfulness and sensuality. (read more)
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Fanny and Alexander Movie Review by AJ  (4/14/2006) |
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Bergman again pecks away at the dark corners of our minds, and the result is an absolutely fabulous, mysterious, and completely enthralling web of times past, old age, youth, and memories half-remembered as well as those never to be forgotten. Fanny and Alexander has a kind of magic all its own, not the cheery,...
(complete Fanny and Alexander review by AJ)
When I saw the run time on this film, I thought that there was no way I would be able to sit through almost 3 and a half hours of Swedish melodrama. Oh how wrong I was.
This is not an epic, but rather more of a moving orchestra of images. It is the story of a wealthy Swedish family at the turn of the 20th century...
(complete Fanny and Alexander review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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