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Fanny och Alexander (1982)

Drama | 188 minutes (bioscoopversie) / 312 minutes (miniserie)
3,76 606 votes

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 (68.052)

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.

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Alexander Ekdahl

Fanny Ekdahl

Oscar Ekdahl

Emilie Ekdahl

Bishop Edvard Vergerus

Helena Ekdahl

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Onderhond

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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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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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