Bergman Retrospective: Fanny and Alexander
BackCategory
Entertainment
Start date
2018-12-15 13:30:00
End date
2018-12-15 16:45:00
Address / City
206 Waltham Street West Newton
Location
MA, US
The Scandinavian Library and the SCC are proudly present Fanny and Alexander (1982) as part of our Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, an Academy Award– winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length version of his triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest.
Admission $8; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library Members
188 minutes. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, an Academy Award– winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length version of his triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest.
Admission $8; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library Members
188 minutes. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Organizer
Scandinavian Cultural Center
Phone
617.795.1914
Email
kerry@scandicenter.org
