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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780029439
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780029437
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Running Time: 188 minutes
Sales Rank: 20088
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
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One of the more upbeat and accessible films by acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Written by Bergman, this autobiographical story follows the lives of two children during one tumultuous year. After the death of the children's beloved father, a local theater owner, their mother marries a strict clergyman. Their new life is cold and ascetic, especially when compared to the unfettered and impassioned life they knew with their father. Most of the story is seen through the eyes of the little boy and is often told in dreamlike sequences. Colorful, insightful, and optimistic, this is far less grim than most of Bergman's work. It was awarded four of the six Oscars for which it was nominated, including Best Foreign Language Film. Though this was announced as his last film, Bergman continued to work into the late 1990s, though mostly for Swedish television. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Such a rich and fulfilling look at family and tragedy...
`Fanny och Alexander' is not going to appeal to everyone, but if this brand of drama is your cup of tea then it will quickly rise as one of your favorite films ever made. The late (great) Ingmar Bergman has a very strong and loyal following among cinematic lovers like myself, for his brand of filmmaking was unique and all his own. His films are deep and meaningful and have cemented him as one of the greatest directors of all time, placing him alongside the likes of Orson Welles (whom he bitterly ... Read More
Rating: - Childhood impressions that shape us
I saw this film decades ago and it was refreshing to see it again. It is Ingmar Bergman's film that closely reflects parts of his own upbringing. We observe an extended family thru the eyes of two children - Fanny and Alexander who are brother and sister. Their family is large, liberal and well to do. Children are encouraged to read, watch theatre performances and expand their imagination in any way possible. They live leisurely and happy life until their father unexpectedly dies. That event dramatically ... Read More
Rating:  - Paganism Vs. Puritanism
A qualified masterpiece, Ingmar Bergman's late work `Fanny and Alexander,' makes another strong emotional appeal with nearly every scene he shot. Perhaps spoiled by his greatest works `Through a Glass Darkly,' `The Seventh Seal,' and `Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection,' it's easy to dock anything less in the Bergman legacy. Nevertheless, clocking in at 3:08, this 1984 Foreign Best Film Oscar winner could have been tightened up and not so tedious in places.
The film is not merely autobiographical, ... Read More
Rating: - Magical realism meets Dickens
"Fanny and Alexander" just may be my very favorite Bergman film (but, admittedly, this should be taken with a grain of salt, since nearly every one of his films I rewatch becomes my "favorite" for a while!). It has a gentle, sweet quality about it that makes the viewer come to love the characters involved, to feel a genuine part of the large Ekdahl clan and to celebrate each of them with affection and forebearance: womanizing Gustav Adolf; poor, insecure Carl (not to mention his long-suffering German wife); Helena the ... Read More
Rating:  - American Hawthorne
Fanny and Alexander deals with Swedish culture as seen through the eyes of a very young brother and sister -- and it is much like our own American culture of the same period where, always, in the background, deep Puritan guilt and fear loomed. Laughter, the joy of living well, could never escape the ghosts of guilt and fear. But then, living can be a lot of fun!
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