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Glowing, magnificent, enchanting
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
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Fanny and Alexander is one of the great films about childhood, and yet it is so much more than that. In many ways it stands as Ingmar Bergman’s swan song, capping his impressive body of work with a glorious coda. He returns to many of the themes he examined over the course of his career, and yet here he locates them in a new and more optimistic light. That is not to say that Fanny and Alexander is a sunny film - it is actually very dark at times - but where it differs from his previous films is that it is told, at least in part, through a child’s perspective, and this frees it up for fantasy in a…
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Action! - of God and Man: Bergman and the Hopelessness Kind
Watching this TV cut, I wasn’t able to stop thinking of how confused or mad maybe some Scorsese fanboys would be at me for having very little problem with a behemoth 5 hours but criticizing Flowers… 3.5hrs. I guess that’s the power of Bergman.
I really loved the story even more. This was meant to be Bergman’s last picture, and having this context in mind, you can really feel this film functions very much as the culmination of an illustrious career. Every theme the filmmaker touched on in his then four (4) decades long career is present in this sprawling epic Dickensian family drama, a coming-of-age story based on…
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They should've called this "There Was A Truly Incredible Amount Of Candles In The First Half And Really Not Too Many Candles In The Second Half"
Watched the 312 minute TV version over 3 days. Absolutely unbelievable
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what did he cut to make this 2 and a half less hours? I don’t understand. This makes everything else feel.. silly.
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Television Version
Bergman’s turn-of-the-century tapestry of life, both a sprawling summation of his previous works and a passing of the torch to fellow filmmakers, daring them to do any better. This is, quite simply, life-changing. For years now I’ve been edging towards Fanny and Alexander, putting it off due to the whopping 312-minute runtime of the revered television version, which is universally considered the superior cut. This cut was also Bergman’s preferred version, so with the master’s wishes in mind, I delved headfirst into the first episode of the beloved Swedish epic.
Spanning a fleeting hour-and-a-half, in many ways the first part feels much like that first act of The Godfather (bar Bergman’s delectable surrealist touches), setting in motion a…
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Fanny and Alexander is one of Bergman’s most ambitious works. With a runtime clocking at 312 minutes, this miniseries has the taste of a Victorian novel by Charles Dickens, and like one of Dickens’s books once you enter the story, you can’t let go.
The first episode is the hardest to get through, it serves as a setting for what’s to follow, and introduces us to the big Ekdahl family, given the huge amount of characters at first can be a bit difficult to remember who is who, but soon enough that’s not a problem anymore, and you feel right at home, at Christmas, with your family.
Even though it’s Christmas, not everything is happy and fun, from the very…
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Criterion Collection Spine #262
(Foreign language film - Sweden)
(Five-hour Television Version)(🎄Christmas Movie Fest 2020🎄)
Legendary Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman presents the joys, hardships, and mysteries of the world through the eyes of a young boy.
"Everything is alive. And everything is God, or God's intention. Not only the good things, but the cruelest and worst. What do you think? ... If there is a God, he's a shit and piss God, that I'd like to kick in the arse."
I first learned about Ingmar Bergman when I did a report on him for a Swedish culture course I took during my study abroad. When I got back home I wanted to check out one of his films and…
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The definitive version of a cinematic miracle
It’s my favourite Bergman, my favourite Christmas movie and is matched only by James Joyce’s The Dead for its profoundly intangible touch upon me.
These is no better example of production design, subtle camerawork and mis en scene. It somehow managed to captivate for an incredible 5 and a half hours of harrowing realism, magic and familial melancholy.
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Bergman really was one of the greatest to ever do it and this might be his finest work. just, wow.
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My thoughts on Fanny and Alexander…
“May I take your hand? I remember your hand as a child. It was small and firm and dry. And your wrist was so awfully slender. I enjoyed being a mother. I enjoyed being an actress, too, but I preferred being a mother. I liked having a big belly and I didn't give two shakes about the theater then. It's all acting anyway. Some roles are nice, others not so nice. I played a mother. I played Juliet and Margareta. Then suddenly I played a widow or a grandmother. One role follows the other. The thing is not to shrink from them.”
Bergman’s unparalleled mammoth of an epic offers an exploration of numerous topics…
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After watching Fanny and Alexander - the film, I finally found the time to get to the series release of this, one of a kind creation from Bergman.
Tbh, I have already said what I wanted to say in my review above so I'll keep it short here and instead of reviewing, I'll draw a breif comparison. It still is filled with the intrigue that comes with the story of a family. The extended time frame allows the secondary charcaters to be explored even further - that was somewhat reserved in the film. In the end, whether it is the series or the film, both have that Bergman touch, the only difference being that one offers the percision while the other brings the depth.
An Ingmar Bergman work after so many months, was a pleasure for sure.
