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Adelbert 2022-03-24 09:02:13

95 points, the first movie with over 90 points this year. I said a long time ago, that this New Year's Eve finally had the opportunity to spend a night in the room watching the cat, and by the way, I also watched the documentary about shooting it. After watching the introduction of the film, I realized that there is a three-hour version. I watched the director's cut version of more than 5 hours. It doesn't matter how long the film is, and the rhythm is indeed a bit slow, but you should think that I was fooled by the background of the film. Anyway, I didn't feel that time passed slowly when I was watching it. Compared with Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", "Virgin Spring" and "Wild Strawberry", this is a much faster-paced film. Children chasing and fighting, uncles' interesting life stories, constantly interspersed theater rehearsal, various births, old age, sickness and death, the mysterious life behind the grocery store, the eerie horror inside the church wall, of course, my favorite is the two children. The negotiation scene between an uncle and a bishop is a classic among the classics.
I heard that the film is also a semi-autobiographical film of the director. Everything the boy experiences in it is nothing more than a story between several family members, but what the director tells in this space is complex, about love , education, responsibility and belief, etc., etc. all appear in one scene. The director often suddenly uses a character's mouth to say some words that seem to have nothing to do with the plot. Those words are probably the director's perception of life after they are stripped away.
Because of its stage presence, the entire film feels like a stage play, but if you think about the art films of that era, and they were made by Bergman, the shadow of this kind of stage play is unavoidable. It's an obvious style.

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Extended Reading
  • Daniella 2022-04-20 09:01:49

    312 minutes. Unspeakable greatness, and moving. With a story of saving children, it completes the review of all motifs such as feelings of life, doubting God, communication failure, disease metaphors, truth and falsehood, and love. Two fathers, or the conflict between art and religion, the struggle between the encouragement and prohibition of freedom and imagination. Every picture, every line, every character is worth pondering.

  • Chauncey 2021-12-31 08:02:10

    Uncle Isaac is great. It’s a perfect movie, and it’s more than four hours added to the TV drama version. Very complicated, but not messy, with amazing beauty and infinite pain. Bergman's "Dream of Red Mansions".

Fanny and Alexander quotes

  • Ekdahlska huset - Helena Ekdahl: I loved being a mother. I loved having a big belly. I loved being an actress too, but I preferred being a mother.

  • Emilie Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset: Your sister gave me sleeping pills for my insomnia. I put three of them in the broth. I did not intend for you to drink it. While you were checking on Elsa, I put three more in. Soon you will sleep very soundly, and when you wake up, I will be gone.