Fresh
A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment.
Lance Goldenberg, Village Voice
Fanny and Alexander
1982 · 3h 8m · R
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
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Fanny and Alexander
Overview
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Director and cast
- Ingmar Bergman Director
- Pernilla Allwin as Fanny Ekdahl
- Bertil Guve as Alexander Ekdahl
- Jan Malmsjö as Bishop Edvard Vergerus
- Ewa Fröling as Emilie Ekdahl
- Gunn Wållgren as Helena Ekdahl
- Börje Ahlstedt as Carl Ekdahl
- Anna Bergman as Hanna Schwartz
- Kristina Adolphson as Siri
- Erland Josephson as Isak Jacobi
- Mats Bergman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
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Fresh
This premiere of the original cut, running at 312 minutes, leaves room for more than a story of one life.
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
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.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Fresh
Our young protagonist will be obsessed with death and see ghosts everywhere. Never has the prison of childhood seemed so inescapable.
Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
Fresh
The result is one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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