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	Fanny and Alexander
		Fanny och Alexander is a 1983 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
		The story is set in the early twentieth century in Sweden and deals with a young girl named Fanny, her brother Alexander, and their well-to-do family.
		Fanny and Alexander's mother and father are both involved in theater and are happily married until the father's sudden death.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fa/fanny_and_alexander.html (221 words)

	Review - DVD: Fanny & Alexander
		Fanny and Alexander are two children in the Ekdahl family, a turn of the century Swedish bourgeoisie clinging to a theater company as they struggle to maintain their internal structure.
		All the while Fanny and Alexander are caught in the middle, enduring abuse, spawning the spiritual cycle of their own release and ultimately witness to the rebirth of their family.
		While Fanny and Alexander relies heavily on conversation, there are enough well placed, events of visual stimuli for the film to assume a feel and look like the encompassing fantasy it becomes.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-december04/ev/ev-fanny_and_alexander.html (1018 words)

	WAG: Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander
		But Fanny and Alexander’s lives are changed abruptly for the worse by their father’s untimely death after the holidays and their mother’s marriage to the morbidly restrictive local bishop a year later.
		Alexander even claims to have seen their ghosts and heard the dead mother’s story of the suffering and neglect that led to their deaths.
		Fanny and Alexander’s escape, which is like something out of a fairy tale, brings them into a strange world that is unlike either the bishop’s coldly ascetic, self-hating world or the Ekdahls’ artistic but upper-middle class circle.
	www.thewag.net /film/fanny_and_alexander.html (2106 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Fanny and Alexander (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" (1982) was intended to be his last film, and in it, he tends to the business of being young, of being middle-aged, of being old, of being a man, woman, Christian, Jew, sane, crazy, rich, poor, religious, profane.
		Now Fanny and Alexander are taken to a new world, the bishop's house, which he inhabits with his mother, his sister and his aunt, and which is whitewashed and barren, with only a few necessary pieces of furniture, locks on every door, bars on the windows.
		In another sense, the events in "Fanny and Alexander" may be seen through the prism of the children's memories, so that half-understood and half-forgotten events have been reconstructed into a new fable that explains their lives.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041205/REVIEWS08/412050302 (1382 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Fanny & Alexander Review
		While there is a distinct and pervasive magic within the framework of Fanny & Alexander - especially in the 5+ hour version of the picture included on this DVD box set - the filmmaking style with which Bergman tells this autobiographical tale is almost unavoidably subtle and unimposing.
		Fanny & Alexander doesn't appear, on first viewing, to be all that cryptic of a tale, but what gives the film its unmistakable punch is that its merits are derived more from repeat viewings than on first assessment.
		Fanny & Alexander - aside from being arguably Bergman's best-written film - is an artistic epic not about characters interacting on screen, but about an auteur looking back at both his creative pedigree and his personal development with the distant, calming eye of his beloved Ibsen or Strindberg.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/fannyandalexander_5disc.html (1493 words)

	FANNY AND ALEXANDER - New York Times
		Fanny and Alexander is a big, dark, beautiful, generous family chronicle, which touches on many of the themes from earlier films while introducing something that, in Bergman, might pass for serenity.
		Fanny and Alexander has the manner of a long, richly detailed tale being related by someone who acknowledges all of the terrors of life without finding in those terrors reason enough to deny life’s pleasures.
		There are repeated references in Fanny and Alexander to this little world, which in the film refers to the Ekdahls’ theater, a place of melodrama, comedy, dreams, magic, and moral order, in contrast to the increasing chaos of life outside.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F51A0C01138F935A35750C8BF67 (649 words)

	The Health Biographies of Alexander Leeper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Fanny Stevenson
		The Alexander Technique was developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander of Tasmania and was a method of improving posture to remove pressure from the lungs and prevent or relieve respiratory diseases.
		Fanny read many articles about health, including some in the British Medical Journal called The Lancet, in an attempt to prevent or treat the many illnesses that Louis suffered from, which is another reason why she has been described as a hypochondriac.
		Fanny also had a severe illness in March 1893 which has been described as a spectacular breakdown and a mental white out which she suddenly snapped out of because of an obscure change of attitude that she supposedly had at that time.
	users.chariot.net.au /~posture/stevensonbiowebpage.html (2565 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Fanny and Alexander directed by Director: Ingmar Bergman - reviewed ...
		Fanny and Alexander is often described as Bergman's masterpiece.
		Fanny and Alexander is set at the beginning of the twentieth century in Bergman's own home town of Uppsala.
		Fanny and Alexander opens on 30 December at the Renoir Cinema in London and screens to 22 January.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/fanny_and_alexander.php (586 words)

	Fanny and Alexander
		The difference is that the dilemma of existence in Fanny and Alexander is shown through a child's eyes (Bergman seldom usedchildren elsewhere) and it's suffused with the magic of childhood curiosity and discovery.
		Fanny and Alexander opens in Uppsala on a Christmas Eve early in the twentieth century where the children's famous and well-off extended family of actors, actresses, and other theater adherents celebrate the holiday with the elaborateness you might expect from show people.
		Bergman's own father was a Lutheran pastor, and he portrays life in the bishop's home in the bleakest imaginable terms, inhabited by a feeble-minded,bedridden aunt, a treacherous maid with chronic rashes on her skin, and the ghosts of the bishop's previous wife and children.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/1982_Fanny_and_Alexander.html (512 words)

	InfoDense - Web - Fanny AND Alexander
		Fanny and Alexander's is currently closed for renovations.
		Fanny and Alexander are almost quiet observers in their own life, taking what...
		Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman's ostensible valedictory film, is most...
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	MDFannyandAlexander
		Fanny and Alexander’s idyllic childhood in turn of the century Sweden is shattered by their father’s death and their mother's remarriage to a stern minister, not unlike Ingmar Bergman's own father.
		His career has three distinct phases, his early films in which he dealt lightly with social and political issues, the mid-career films in which he ponders questions of faith, and the films of his old age, in which he muses on the solace that memory may or may not provide.
		In contrast, “Fanny and Alexander offers us a glimpse of an earthly paradise, which is not what we have come to expect from Ingmar Bergman, that master of private hells.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDFannyandAlexander.htm (1060 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Fanny and Alexander
		Fanny and Alexander veers from warm family gatherings to the dark contrast of an oppressive stepfather's domination.
		Only Alexander seems to intuit this man's unyielding Calvinistic menace, and soon Emilie and her children are prisoners in his stone 'palace,' surrounded by frightened servants.
		Alexander and his shy sister Fanny face down their oppressor with the kind of courage and resolve unknown in Bergman's earlier Hour of the Wolf and Shame.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=13754 (720 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection
		Especially meaningful is a long sequence between Fanny and Alexander and their doomed father, as he demonstrates the nature of storytelling with a simple chair.
		Fanny and Alexander was Bergman's final theatrical film, though he has gone right on making TV movies and writing screenplays.
		Fanny and Alexander play minor roles in all the merriment--no one is given more screen time than anyone else.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=B000305ZYS (1548 words)

	Fanny & Alexander \| DVDs \| MTV Movies
		Alexander, the director's alter ego, is first seen at age 10 at a joyous and informal Christmas gathering of relatives and servants.
		Fanny is Alexander's sister; both suffer an emotional shakedown when their recently-widowed mother (Ewa Froling) marries a cold and distant minister.
		Ingmar Bergman insisted that Fanny and Alexander, originally a multipart television series pared down to feature-film length, represented his "retirement" work, though within a year after its release he was busy with several additional Swedish TV projects.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/11309/dvds.jhtml (236 words)

	ipedia.com: Fanny and Alexander Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film is set in the early twentieth century in Sweden and deals with a young girl named Fanny, her brother Alexander, and...
		The film is set in the early twentieth century in Sweden and deals with a young girl named Fanny, her brother Alexander, and their well-to-do family.
		Bergman announced that the film would be his last feature, and as of March 2004 it has been the last he has directed, although he written several scripts since 1986 and has directed a number of TV specials, including After the Rehearsal and Saraband, a sequel to Scenes from a Marriage.
	www.ipedia.com /fanny_and_alexander.html (275 words)

	Stevenson Health Controversies
		Fanny Stevenson suffered from many illnesses which some other authors have suggested were due to a neurosis which can be traced back to the giddy spells, flouts, and hallucinations which she had after the death of her infant son Hervey.
		Fanny probably had one of those illnesses which produced the giddy spells at the time of her sons death, and the illnesses which she had later in life can be reasonably easily accounted for in other ways as the infectious ailments of the nineteenth century.
		Fanny Stevenson has been described as having an 18 month period of temporary insanity which terminated in a spectacular mental breakdown in 1893, and which she suddenly snapped out of.
	users.chariot.net.au /~posture/StevensonHealthControversy.html (1579 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Fanny and Alexander (1983), Ingmar Bergman, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, dvd review
		Fanny and Alexander enjoyed a 2004 re-release on the big screen and made its subsequent debut on DVD in two editions from the Criterion Collection, one in the 188-minute theatrical cut and one including both the theatrical cut and the 5-hour Swedish television cut.
		Alexander's actor father Oscar (Allan Edwall) is currently cast as the ghost of Hamlet's father and is as pale and frail in life as he is on the stage.
		Alexander's sick father passes away, and the boy notices his mother taking comfort in the company of a strict bishop (Jan Malmsjo), whom she eventually marries.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/fannyalex.shtml (1254 words)

	Review 'Fanny and Alexander'
		The reason why the leading characters of "Fanny and Alexander" are clean and happy little boy and girl, one can say that the two beautiful children suggest Bergman's childhood; however, it would rather to say that Bergman is compensating for his unhappy childhood by having two happy children play his childhood in this film.
		When the minister is chastising Fanny and Alexander, we can see a cross on the wall behind the minister, as well as the other family members of the minister standing along the wall and coldly watching the children suffering.
		Another great scene to mention: when Fanny and Alexander's mother is crying for her husband's death, we see the image of the dead body right fit in the frame of the room's door.
	www.webspawner.com /users/fannyalexander (1452 words)

	Fanny och Alexander (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fanny and Alexander"s family seems a happy one, actually a family of theatre actors.
		Thus, it is quite possible that Alexander's step family is a representation of Bergman's real family, while Alexander's real family is the family Bergman had dreamed of, unsurprisingly a family of actors.
		The color contrasts are very strong in "Fanny and Alexander", and are especially used to underline the difference between the grandmother's colorful home and the bishop's house which is mostly all fl and white.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0083922 (1115 words)

	Fanny and Alexander
		Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman's ostensible valedictory film, is most clearly and obviously about the pleasures of family — even the farting, adulterous and shame-faced family that’s so often exposed here.
		Alexander always reminds me a bit of that skinny kid at the beginning of Persona, the one who reaches out toward the translucent screen on which a projection of a character’s face is beginning to take vague focus, and who may thus represent that early urge toward narrative.
		Alexander provokes the bishop when he spins a story about him — Alexander claims the bishop murdered his wife and children, earning a beating.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/fannyand.html (1141 words)

	Film Review - Fanny and Alexander
		After Alexander's father, a famous actor, dies, his mother marries a harsh and sadistic clergyman.
		Alexander and his sister Fanny, who's eight-years-old, are rescued from this household by their gentle and loving grandmother.
		Bergman has said that when a friend asked him why a man of such vitality and sexuality had consistently turned out depressing fare, the idea for Fanny and Alexander was born in his mind.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2647 (510 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Bergman announced that the film would be his last feature, and as of January 2007 it has been the last theatrically released film he has directed, although he has written several scripts since 1986 and has directed a number of TV specials, including After the Rehearsal and Saraband.
		The story is set in the early twentieth century in Sweden and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family.
		In the meantime, Alexander has met the Jewish merchant's mysterious son and fantasized about his stepfather's death â“ it is as if Alexander's fantasy comes true as he dreams it.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fanny_and_Alexander (630 words)

	R2 project: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Fanny and Alexander" is a film that was obviously very dear to Bergman's heart as it is a semi-autobiographical account of his own personal experiences as a child replayed through the eyes of the film's lead characters: Fanny and Alexander.
		The film then moves on towards a heartening ending in which we see Fanny and Alexander escaping from the clutches of the priest and helping their mother to pull herself away from him.
		Many of the themes running through "Fanny and Alexander" are demanding upon the viewer as we deal with spirituality, religion, death, and much pain and suffering.
	www.r2-dvd.org /article.jsp?sectionId=4&articleId=3626 (1076 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Fanny and Alexander DVD Collection: The Criterion Collection
		Alexander (Bertil Guve) is still the petulantly indignant center of the tale, alternately winning and repelling one's affections throughout, but other family members are now more vibrantly drawn than before.
		Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander's parents, Oscar (Allan Edwall) and Emilie (Ewa Fröling), are theatrical animals presiding over a mediocre company that appears to subsist only by the members' fierce loyalty to each other.
		Bergman's adroit casting goes a long way toward making Fanny and Alexander the monumental ode to family it becomes in its uncut presentation, but he closes the remaining distance simply by lightening up a little (this may be his least oppressive work since Smiles of a Summer Night).
	dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/f/fannyandalexander_cc.q.shtml (747 words)

	Amazon.com: Fanny and Alexander (The Theatrical Version) - Criterion Collection: DVD: Kristina Adolphson,Börje ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fanny and Alexander are almost quiet observers in their own life, taking what occurs because they feel they have no choice in the matter.
		Alexander is the main force in the film and Fanny seems quiet and somewhat underdeveloped as a character.
		Alexander opening the doors and entering a room filled with red curtains, then standing at the window with his hand on the window and you can see the detail of the embroidered sheers.
	www.amazon.com /Fanny-Alexander-Theatrical-Version-Collection/dp/B000305ZZ2 (3627 words)

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