FANNY AND ALEXANDER
The grand summation of Ingmar Bergman’s career, this epic family drama drew on the director’s own
childhood experiences in early 20th century Sweden.
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. Bergman intended Fanny and
Alexander as his swan song, and it is the director’s warmest and most
autobiographical film, an Academy Award–winning triumph that combines
his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and
sensuality. Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of
my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length version of his
triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest. (Sweden, 1982, 188 min., R, Swedish with English subtitles| Dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) stands as one
of the giants of world cinema and perhaps the father of the flowering
of art house movement in America during the 1960s and ’70s. This
selection of some of his greatest works feature new digital restorations
courtesy of Janus Films and the Swedish Film Institute.
Click on the Links Below to Purchase Tickets for More Bergman Films:
THE SEVENTH SEAL
WILD STRAWBERRIES
PERSONA
THE MAGIC FLUTE
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
CRIES AND WHISPERS
