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Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982)

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Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 11
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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

Nov 16, 2004

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A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment.

December 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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This premiere of the original cut, running at 312 minutes, leaves room for more than a story of one life.

December 1, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
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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.

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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The result is one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.

August 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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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.

August 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Utterly enthralling.

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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.

November 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Bergman's epic and mature masterpiece about childhood.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

One of the filmmaker's most personal and finely detailed works.

August 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Our young protagonist will be obsessed with death and see ghosts everywhere. Never has the prison of childhood seemed so inescapable.

January 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

During its three hours, seasons come and go, friends and relatives gather for funerals, weddings and christenings, and all human life is here.

August 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

Dickensian in its extravagant emotional power - with a hint of Charlotte Brontë - and some Chekhov in its melancholy.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Bergman at his most compelling, detailed and witty. An astonishing and deeply rewarding achievement.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

An accomplished masterpiece, with excellent performances and rarely bettered direction.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Immensely pleasurable.

August 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An extraordinary drama about childhood and imagination as a passport out of dread and into mystery.

July 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice

One of the Great Films by one of the Great Filmmakers.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

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.

July 3, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

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.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander)

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, 2007
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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, 2011
Matheus Carvalho

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