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In 1982, Ingmar Bergman emerged with one of his most singularly acclaimed films - a work that dramatically broke away from much of the moody psychodrama that characterized such earlier motion pictures as Cries & Whispers and Hour of the Wolf. Entitled Fanny and Alexander, and originally intended as the director's "swan song," this epic plunges into the life of a theatrical family named the Ekdahls, in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Bergman filters life through the eyes of the two titular Ekdahl
R, 5 hr. 12 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Dec 17, 1982 Wide
Nov 16, 2004
Embassy Pictures Corporation
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (0) | DVD (11)
A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment.
This premiere of the original cut, running at 312 minutes, leaves room for more than a story of one life.
Sumptuous, haunting, and unusually tender... a nakedly psychological 'in' to [Bergman's] earliest artistic impulses; nothing else in his oeuvre addresses so directly his childhood escapes into fantasy as the by-product of a harsh Lutheran upbringing.
The result is one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.
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.
Utterly enthralling.
How the imagination at once mirrors, deflects, and rearranges reality, especially in childhood, constitutes one of the myriad strands that make up the core of Ingmar Bergman's monumental Fanny and Alexander.
Bergman's epic and mature masterpiece about childhood.
One of the filmmaker's most personal and finely detailed works.
Our young protagonist will be obsessed with death and see ghosts everywhere. Never has the prison of childhood seemed so inescapable.
During its three hours, seasons come and go, friends and relatives gather for funerals, weddings and christenings, and all human life is here.
Dickensian in its extravagant emotional power - with a hint of Charlotte Brontë - and some Chekhov in its melancholy.
Bergman at his most compelling, detailed and witty. An astonishing and deeply rewarding achievement.
An accomplished masterpiece, with excellent performances and rarely bettered direction.
Immensely pleasurable.
An extraordinary drama about childhood and imagination as a passport out of dread and into mystery.
One of the Great Films by one of the Great Filmmakers.
Arguably Bergman's most accessible and upbeat work, this childhood fable is magical, personal, and poignant in the way that other masterpieces of the genre are.
It's a marvellously engrossing and thought-provoking film, filled with dazzling dramatic set-pieces and witty, knowing allusions to its creator's artistic conceits and deceits.
Finally got to see the full length five hour television version. My hands are tied. Until the judging committee agrees on a new scoring system, I am compelled to give this a perfect score - five stars.
March 27, 2007Super Reviewer
A primeira cena de Fanny e Alexander introduz o menino do título (Bertil Guve) a contemplar um palco em miniatura vazio. Nós, no papel de espectadores, nos encontramos em uma espécie de ponto subjetivo, observando o personagem atrás das cortinas. Com este plano, Bergman estabelece um paradoxo que percorre ao longo do
August 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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