Fanny and Alexander

Director: Ingmar Bergman

1982 / 188min / 35mm

Spend the Christmas Eve of 1907—and the aftermath of the sumptuous celebration—at the Ekdahl family home, as seen through the eyes of two of the massive clan’s smallest members, played by Pernilla Allwin and Bertil Guve, in Bergman’s intimate epic of holiday warmth and wintery family frigidity. A tender but clear-eyed recreation of northern European bourgeois life in the early years of the 20th century, evoking both its nourishing hearthside pleasures and the pinching pains inflicted by Puritan self-denial.