Posted by Sigismund on July 7, 2007, at 15:54:07
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Sigismund, posted by Kath on July 7, 2007, at 14:11:48
Hi Kath
It was fantastic, but had been cut down to 3.5 hours.
So I ordered the 5CD version that was shown on Swedish TV, which must be at least 10 hours long.
There's all this lovely stuff about identity and suffering, like you always get in Bergman, but to make the movie hang together most of that has been taken out.
[I remember the funeral prayer (from over 30 years ago) which no doubt had Scandanavian intellectual jokes.....it was this amazing prayer at the bedside in "Cries and Whispers", and the prayer was essentially an address to God about His relationship to those whom He had abandoned. It had all the cadences of a liturgy, no faith to speak of and a lot of religious sensibility (right up my alley, in fact).]
Fanny and Alexander is like a fairy story with good and evil characters and spiritual powers and ghosts.
I remember seeing Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights". That was the first movie I saw Phillip Seymore Hoffman in.
I've been feeling a bit better lately, thanks Kath.
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