Fanny and Alexander
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Warm, measured, measured drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Our read · Fanny and Alexander (1982) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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