Fanny och Alexander (1982)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 188 minuten (bioscoopversie) / 312 minuten (miniserie)
Alternative titles: Fanny and Alexander / Fanny & Alexander
Country:
Sweden / France / West Germany
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin and Ewa Fröling
IMDb score:
8,1 (71.090)
Releasedate: 17 December 1982
Fanny och Alexander plot
Fanny and Alexander are members of the lavish and colorful Ekdahl family in a Swedish town in the early 1900s. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, both run the local theater, assisted by Oscar's mother and brother. When Oscar dies at an early age, widow Emilie marries a bishop and they move with the two children to his stern and austere chancellery. The children immediately feel deeply unhappy.
Actors and actresses
Alexander Ekdahl
Fanny Ekdahl
Oscar Ekdahl
Emilie Ekdahl
Isak Jacobi
Bishop Edvard Vergerus
Helena Ekdahl
Carl Ekdahl
Justina
Filip Landahl
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
What a dull (movie) (misery) (film misery).
Immediately after coming home from My Blueberry Nights, we started working on this film. After that cinematic emotion, Fanny Och Alexander simply falls hard and dry on the stomach. A terribly bare-bones registration of incredibly boring scenes.
It doesn't help much Fanny and Alexander either, the first hour I barely knew who they were. That whole dinner really didn't interest me, the endless conversations and monologues were also uninspired and impossible to get through. After an hour we gave up.
Saw the rest of the film the next day (watched the version for 3 hours, I'm a bit tired of miniseries) and although it goes a bit more smoothly, it remains an excruciatingly boring affair. I thought it was very ugly (that recurring shot from that stream to that peasant church tower), very boring and especially badly acted. That Alexander didn't care at all.
Just not really my director. Very bare-bones registration of dull scenes with lame characters. The film gains some tempo towards the end, but by then it was long too late for me.
0.5*
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Sir Djuke
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- 374 messages
- 1037 votes
Ingmar Bergman intended 'Fanny Och Alexander' as his farewell work and that's how it looks. All the themes from his previous films are discussed and viewed through the eyes of the child Alexander, who can only be viewed as a youth version of the director himself. All the emotions that can dominate a child's life are reviewed: family happiness, amazement at the behavior of adults, fear, rebelliousness, fantasy, budding sexuality. In short: 'Fanny Och Alexander' is a true tour-de-force that can best be viewed in the extended television version of more than 5 hours. Here too, the color palette used (from exuberant in the happy part of the story to very gray in the anxious part) comes into its own.
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