This immensely personal and artistic Oscar-winner by Ingmar Bergman continues to surprise, challenge, and delight. Here’s why you should watch it
. To its credit, however, no scene feels wasted, and the movie’s length enables it to follow characters closely, including through moments of stillness and contemplation that add emotional layers and expand the inner worlds of many among the film’s sprawling cast, to the point that they seem almost tangible.
Fanny and Alexander captures the shifting tones and emotional palette of family festivities: joy intermingling with sadness, discontent and loneliness.The verisimilitude of these characters is part of what renders the film timeless and compelling. Forty years on, not only has Fanny and Alexander aged well in terms of narrative and production quality – its cinematography, by Sven Nykvist, is exquisite – but it also has contemporary relevance.
Bergman brings a great deal of empathy to his creations here, perhaps because this film is his most autobiographical – he himself was the son of a high-profile clergyman and grew up in a restrictive, punishing household. He avoids depicting any character as wholly good or evil, instead highlighting their contradictions.
The film feels modern in its relationships, too. Gustav Adolf and Alma Ekdahl have an open marriage that is consensual, loving, and accepted by their wider family, who embody a warm and inclusive “chosen family” ethos. The film also pre-empts contemporary discussions about coercive control, gaslighting and domestic abuse through the relationship of Bishop Vergérus and Emilie, showing how controlling tendencies can tumefy, and how abuse can flourish behind upstanding façades.
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