Review of Fanny and Alexander (1982) by David Ray G — 10 Sep 2009

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 of the last decades. Frightening, disturbing, claustrophobic, insatiable, redeeming. A realistic tale of a family that faces death, religious distortion, guilt, love and loneliness with magnificent theatrical undercurrents. It might have started off slowly and hopelessly, but it became a galvanic celebration of humanity and visuals.