Fanny and Alexander (Re-release)
Ingmar Bergman’s famous reflection on his own childhood. The vivacious widow Emilie Ekdahl remarries Edvard Vergerus, a strict Lutheran clergyman. Her children, Fanny and Alexander, rebel: Vergerus banishes all joy from the children’s lives and locks them in the attic, after which Alexander attempts to take revenge using black magic.
Ingmar Bergman’s famous look back at his own childhood. The vivacious widow Emilie Ekdahl remarries Edvard Vergerus, a strict Lutheran clergyman. Her children, Fanny and Alexander, rebel: Vergerus banishes all joy from their lives and locks them in the attic, after which Alexander attempts to take revenge using black magic. In his final feature film, Bergman looks back on his “idyllic and panic-stricken” childhood: the family chronicle, told through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, is a veiled self-portrait, for the imaginative Alexander is little Ingmar himself. Fanny and Alexander is the director’s cut of the original 312-minute TV movie. Bergman, along with Antonioni and Fellini, is considered one of the leading figures of “auteur cinema.” He was fascinated by oppressive existential questions and enjoyed looking behind the façade of Scandinavian prosperity, as in Scenes from a Marriage (1973). After Fanny and Alexander, he announced he would no longer make feature films and turned his attention to television and theater.
