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Episode 39 - Fanny and Alexander (1982)
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Dec 31, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
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. With allusions to Hamlet and Charles Dickens, it's a heavy one, but then, some of the best Christmas stories are.
Released:
Dec 31, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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