Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander

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It's the early twentieth century Sweden. Adolescent siblings Alexander and Fanny Ekdahl lead a relatively joyous and exuberant life with their well-off extended paternal family, led by the family matriarch, their grandmother, Helena Ekdahl. The openness of the family culture is exemplified by Helena's now deceased husband ending up becoming best friends with one of her lovers, a Jewish puppet maker named Isak Jacobi, and their Uncle Gustav Adolf's open liaison with one of the... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Fanny and Alexander:

Pernilla Allwin
Bertil Guve
Jan Malmsjö
Ewa Fröling
Gunn Wållgren
Börje Ahlstedt

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It's the early twentieth century Sweden. Adolescent siblings Alexander and Fanny Ekdahl lead a relatively joyous and exuberant life with their well-off extended paternal family, led by the family matriarch, their grandmother, Helena Ekdahl. The openness of the family culture is exemplified by Helena's now deceased husband ending up becoming best friends with one of her lovers, a Jewish puppet maker named Isak Jacobi, and their Uncle Gustav Adolf's open liaison with one of the family maids, Maj, who everyone in the family adores, even Gustav Adolf's wife, Alma. Between the siblings, Alexander in particular has inherited the family's love of storytelling, his parents and his grandmother who are actors and who manage their own theater. Things change for Alexander and Fanny when their father, Oscar, dies shortly after Christmas 1907. Although she truly does believe she loves him, the children's mother, Emilie, decides to marry Bishop Edvard Vergérus, who she first met as the officiate at Oscar's funeral. She also wants a father figure for the children. Going into the marriage, Emilie has inclinations that it will be a much different life than she had with the Ekdahls, but is not prepared for the harsh, austere and strict life Edvard rules with an iron fist. Emilie, Alexander and Fanny end up being prisoners in the bishop's stark and humorless house. As Alexander butts head with his stepfather and tries to learn how to keep to his own principles while obeying Edvard, Emilie tries to figure out a way to regain her and her children's own destiny, as Edvard will not consent to divorce, and her "desertion" in the eyes of the law means that Alexander and Fanny would become his wards.

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Time Out - 10/10 by Geoff AndrewIt'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.
Village Voice - 10/10 by Lance GoldenbergA sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment.
Film4 - 10/10 by Jon FortgangBergman at his most compelling, detailed and witty. An astonishing and deeply rewarding achievement.
Empire Magazine - 10/10 by Alan MorrisonAn accomplished masterpiece, with excellent performances and rarely bettered direction.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Dave KehrThe result was one of Bergman's most haunting and suggestive films.
Boston Globe - 10/10 by Michael BlowenIn "Fanny and Alexander," Ingmar Bergman has put the magic back into his lantern.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThe movie is astonishingly beautiful. The cinematography is by Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Mick LaSalleIt is very much, and in the best way, an old man's movie, the work of an artist resigned to life's mystery, full of wonder at the passage of time, full of forgiveness for past wrongs, and full of understanding.
New York Times - 10/10 by Vincent CanbyA big, dark, beautiful, generous family chronicle, which touches on many of the themes from earlier films while introducing something that, in Bergman, might pass for serenity.
The Nation - 10/10 by Robert HatchIt smiles at its characters' follies but cherishes their valor, and in their behalf it employs magic with the casual authority of Prospero himself.

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