CiNEMERCATOR - Ingmar Bergman Fanny och Alexander 1982
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
nxt edition:
10-12
We'll be showing the first part of the movie, the second part will be screened on DEC 17th.
When Bergman made Fanny och Alexander in the early 1980s, he was already considered one of the most important directors in the world, but also someone who had stepped away from the grind of feature filmmaking. In the mid 70's he had been publicly accused of tax fraud- wrongly as proven later- and humiliated by the Swedish government had gone into self-imposed exile. It shook him deeply. He said later that the experience broke something in him, and for a while he decided he was done with cinema.
Fanny och Alexander became the project that pulled him back. He designed it as a 'last great statement'; a final film that would contain everything he cared about: theatre, childhood, ghosts, religion, cruelty, and the complicated warmth of family life. It was also his most expensive and ambitious production, originally created as a long TV miniseries and then edited into a feature. The scale is unusual for Bergman; large sets, a huge ensemble, and a mix of realism and quiet supernatural moments- but the emotional core stays precise. At this point in his career Bergman no longer needed to prove anything and you can feel that freedom in the film. He lets scenes breathe. He brings humour back into his work. And he allows magic and realism to sit side by side without apology. The whole production carries a sense of someone looking back at his own life; the theatres, the strict fathers, the imaginative children- and trying to give it all a final shape. Fanny och Alexander is ultimately about the environments that shape us; the homes that protect, the homes that wound, and the inner world we build when neither is safe enough.
This film is chosen by Merthe and Andreas.
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