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Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary directors warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Awardwinning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.

"Deliberately or not, Bergman assembled an inventory of the cinematic and personal attributes that had since 1946 worked so magnificently and proficiently from his reflective psyche into his astonishing filmography." Vague Visages

"It is no surprise that Bergman should give these two women the triumphant last word in Fanny and Alexander, a multigenerational drama that leaps lightly over barriers of age, gender, and class. Throughout his career, with his characteristic spare-nothing close-ups, he has followed the emotional logic in his actresses faces, dug deeper into their psyches than any other director." Molly Haskel, Criterion

"Fanny, by all accounts, is considered Bergmans grandest achievement, a sweeping, lovingly detailed bildungsroman of memorable characterizations, embracing every theme close to his heart, etching a vivid portrait of his childhood, and invoking his fascination with theater and cinema with its very first shot." Art Forum

"The kind of rich, timeless, cautionless magnum opus we can only receive, like benedictions, from artists whove paid their generations dues of sweat, risk, tears, and honesty. . . . " Village Voice