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…
Reviews of Fanny and Alexander 1984
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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ingmar bergman, more like ingmar bergoat
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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…
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Can’t be anything but in awe of this film’s sumptuous pleasures and its erratic final act.
Seen @ Gene Siskel Film Center.
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“A young man journeys down an endless road
in the company of many others. The road leads across a rocky plain where nothing grows.
The sun’s fire burns from morning to evening. They can’t find shade or coolness anywhere. A harrowing wind stirs up huge dust clouds.The youth is driven forward by an incomprehensible anxiety and tormented by a scorching thirst. Sometimes he asks himself or one of his traveling companions about the goal of their pilgrimage. But the answer is uncertain and tentative. He himself has forgotten…
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