Episode 39 – Fanny and Alexander (1986)

Three children–a girl in a pink dress and two boys in sailor outfits–delightedly open presents under a tree, with a maid.

Our month of Christmas-themed movies wraps up with Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, a lushly-filmed, sometimes dark, deeply-moving family drama about a brother and sister whose lives fall apart when their father dies and their mother remarries a sadistic minister. With allusions to Hamlet and Charles Dickens, it’s a heavy one, but then, some of the best Christmas stories are.

Episode 39 – Fanny and Alexander (1982) Mary Versus the Movies

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