Fanny & Alexander
I don't expect anyone will read this. But I just saw the most wonderful film by Ingmar Bergman called Fanny and Alexander. It was bizarre, beautiful and frightening.
-Paul
posted by Ivory @ 10:58 AM
I don't expect anyone will read this. But I just saw the most wonderful film by Ingmar Bergman called Fanny and Alexander. It was bizarre, beautiful and frightening.
posted by Ivory @ 10:58 AM
3 Comments:
Ingmar Bergman isn't always so depressing. You just haven't watched the right films. Try his adaptation of the Magic Flute for instance.
I have the Magic Flute and can lend it to you, or we could show it sometime in the club, although I don't know how into watching an opera the club members would be even if it is a film of an opera.
Fanny and Alexander, incidentally, isn't depressing at all. Although if I were to compare it to something, the thing I would have to say it is most like is Kipling's Baa Baa Black Sheep, its message is completely different. Whereas Kipling's is about despair to the point that it's the most painful story I've ever read, Bergman's is about faith and hope. Even at the darkest times, Bergman cuts in scenes with the grandmother who is perhaps in some ways representing God in that she is infinately good and infinately capable. That's not to say the movie's preachy. It may be the main theme, but it is so textured that we're also confronted with very abstact concepts of morality and family and love.
I think it would be great to show it. I saw it first on TCM and they showed the cut down American version that won the oscar, but I think if we show it we should show the longer Swedish version that I haven't seen yet. Since it's a movie I intend on buying and haven't bought yet, I can't yet say if the original holds the same themes.
Incidentally, has the foreign film's club shown 7th seal yet? it's such an important classic film that I kinda feel we should.
So, I was just looking to buy Fanny and Alexander on amazon and noticed that while the American version is 188 minutes the Swedish version is 500!
I suppose we'd have to show the American version, but can you imagine!
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