What does a masterpiece look like? | first reaction to FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1 of 4) скачать в хорошем качестве

What does a masterpiece look like? | first reaction to FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1 of 4)

Ingmar Bergman plumbs the depths of his childhood to tell the tale of a family in Uppsala. Episode 1 ("The Ekdahl Family Celebrates Christmas") finds them in the midst of the holidays. There is the matriarch Helena and her former lover and family friend Isak Jacobi. There is the eldest son Gustav Adolf with his wife Alma and his secret sexual entreaties to a family maid/nanny Maj. There is son Oscar and his wife Emilie, who run the family theater and perform the nativity play. They are the parents of Alexander and Fanny. And finally, there is youngest son Carl and his German wife Lydia. Their constant fighting and Carl's repeated financial troubles plague the family. Christmas is a time for revelry and a time for staying up far too late, relitigating old family wounds. It's also a time for ghosts to slip into the quiet hours, bubbling just beneath the surface. Widely considered one of, if not Bergman's masterpiece, Fanny and Alexander spans four episodes and over 300 min. Watched in its entirety, it is counted as one of the longest theatrical films of all time. (Please note these are impressions from first time viewings, unless otherwise stated. If my points come across ill-constructed, inane, or otherwise unconvincing, muh bad bruh.)