Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Borje Ahlstedt
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lad...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 16, 2004
Stats: 921 reviews
There are films for which you're struggling to write a review and this is one of them for me.
I haven't seen many of Bergman's films, but this is definitely amongst his best for me. Superb performances and stunning cinematography in what is probably on of the most poetic films ...( read more)
It took me at least a half hour to get into it, I guess it was when everybody got drunk enough to care about appearances. After that the characters got more depth.
Sat through the entire five hours in one session, all I can say is that it didn't take any effort at all. Amazing m...( read more)
Fanny and Aleander has:
A nursemaid with cleavage
A pillow fight
An uncle who farts out candles
Randy old men
Promiscuous young ladies
A Christmas party
A death
A ghost
A wicked stepfather
An enormous aunt
Bars on the windows
A clever escape
Another death
Another ghost
Puppets
A...( read more)
although considered by many to be a masterpiece, this is my least favorite of bergmans films. it is well directed and well crafted for sure, but the goodness ends there. at three hours it is overlong, needing as much as an hour of this slow paced film to be left on the cutting ...( read more)
Enjoyed the second half of this 188 minute marathon much more than the first. Too many magical/existential goings on to give it a strong endorsement.
This is the choice; the three hour epic or the five hour even more epic. And lucky me, my DVD rental company sent me the five hour version so feet up relax, buy snacks first. Actually I ended up watching it in two sessions, which was easy as it divides into five "acts", so you ...( read more)
The swan song of Bergman is definitely a mash-up of his previous extraordinary metaphysical endorsements,still....the epic fragrance is as churning as the Ekdahl family's warm (yet boiling) edifice.
A panoramic spectacle of gigantic proportions,involving phantoms of the past,sexu...( read more)
It is very much, and in the best way, an old man's movie, the work of an artist resigned to life's mystery, full of wonder at the passage of time, full of forgiveness for past wrongs, and full of unde... full review
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