FANNY AND ALEXANDER

An inexhaustible feast of a movie, FANNY & ALEXANDER invites you into one of the richest worlds ever created for the screen. Ingmar Bergman brings the full force of his imagination to this sprawling family saga, filling its sumptuous rooms with unruly life and opening secret passages into the supernatural. It’s a film to get lost in, as intimate as a childhood memory and as vast as a world conjured into being.

In a Swedish theatrical family, young Fanny and Alexander grow up surrounded by extravagant personalities, with adult indiscretions unfolding just beyond their understanding. Then their father’s death and their mother’s marriage to a formidable bishop carry them from this affectionate disorder into a frightening new household. What follows is a Gothic adventure of astonishing emotional reach, in which a child’s defiance can summon forces even he doesn’t understand.

Beginning with one of cinema’s most glorious Christmas gatherings, Bergman’s masterpiece belongs on the big screen, where its smallest apparitions have room to haunt us and its generosity can fill a theater. Join us for a holiday in the Ekdahl household. Few films have ever made the world feel so enchanted, or being alive in it so precious.