Fanny and Alexander (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

Fanny and Alexander is Ingmar Bergman’s memory film; it’s not just a partly autobiographical reminiscence of his childhood, but it’s also filled with memories of themes, characters, plots, and actors from his forty-plus year career in the cinema. As a summative entity of his work as an internationally renowned filmmaker, it’s pretty much without equal, and even for someone who’s never experienced a Bergman film before and who won’t recognize so many parallels and paeans to his past achievements, it’s an irresistible dramedy that lures you into a magical world that you won’t want to escape from at any point for the next three-plus hours. (The 320-minute television version also included in this Criterion set allows the viewer to bask even more in the deep nostalgia and rich storytelling of one of the world’s most gifted entrepreneurs.)

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