Film
Fanny and Alexander
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 188 mins
Announced as Ingmar Bergman‘s final film, 1982’s family saga Fanny and Alexander is also the great Swedish auteur’s most warm and optimistic work.
https://youtu.be/tAYT2zyMPPk
The drama unfolds of the course of a year, beginning with the theatrical Ekdahl family’s Christmas celebrations. The patriarch then carks it on stage during a production of Hamlet. The lives of 10-year-old Alexander and his 8-year-old sister Fanny change dramatically when their mother marries a cruel and sadistic minister. But – hey – is that an atypical happy ending on the horizon. Beautifully photographed by Sven Nykvist, this perfect period evocation of childhood justly bagged the Best Foreign Film Oscar back in 1983.
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