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Fanny and Alexander review – Ingmar Bergman's dark fusion of Shakespeare and Dickens

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    I watched that movie on VHS more than 20 years ago. I was obsessed with Bergman for a time. This movie helped me learn more about my favorite director back then. It tied his filmography together....

    I watched that movie on VHS more than 20 years ago. I was obsessed with Bergman for a time.

    This movie helped me learn more about my favorite director back then. It tied his filmography together.

    Unlike many of his movies, Fanny and Alexander doesn't have a lot of fantastical elements or psychologisms. It's just a beautiful truthful story full of hurt and heartbreak. My childhood wasn't exactly happy so I can relate in many ways.

    There's a making-off for that movie. At one point, Bergman argues with Sven Nykvist (the cinematographer), because Bergman wanted a scene to look and feel just like it looked in his childhood, while Nykvist just wanted to make a good movie.

    Eventually, Bergman stops and says, getting emotional: "it happened like that exactly". It is haunting.

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