a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

historical drama

Fanny and Alexander Fanny and Alexander () is a 1982 historical drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

epic

Fanny and Alexander is one of Ingmar Bergman’s most epic films.

a Swedish drama film , which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 17 December 1982written and directed by Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 17 December 1982, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

family drama

Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve) are the titular characters in this turn-of-the-century family drama.

story

Fanny and Alexander is a story, the chronicle of a middle-class, perhaps upper-middle-class family sticking closely together ...

relationship drama

Fanny and Alexander is a relationship drama filled with humor and love for the family.

a Swedish film about ther life of two young siblings in a small city in early twentieth-century Sweden

Fanny And Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) is a Swedish film about ther life of two young siblings in a small city in early twentieth-century Sweden, and the events that unfold after the sudden death of their father.

epic film

Fanny and Alexander is another epic film that tells the story of a family across three years.

melodrama

Fanny is a supremely entertaining melodrama that won't leave a dry eye in the house.

a small and intimate drama set over a relatively brief time period

Despite the two versions running, respectively, just over three and five hours, Fanny and Alexander is a small and intimate drama set over a relatively brief time period.

theatrical

FANNY AND ALEXANDER is the story of two children belonging to a wealthy, extensive theatrical family in provincial Sweden in the early years of the 20th century--10-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and Director Ingmar Bergman's younger sister, Fanny (Pernilla Alwin).

a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, director of [checks notes] some of the greatest and most influential movies ever made

Fanny and Alexander is a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, director of [checks notes] some of the greatest and most influential movies ever made.

romance and drama

Fanny is a 1932 French romance and drama film directed by Marc Allégret, based on the play by Marcel Pagnol.

the gentle, poetic story of two years in the lives of characters who are meant to be Bergman's maternal grandparents

Set in 1907, Fanny and Alexander is the gentle, poetic story of two years in the lives of characters who are meant to be Bergman's maternal grandparents.

independent cinema

Fanny & Alexander is a 1982 Ingmar Bergman film regarded as a masterpiece of European independent cinema.

a sitcom, a farce, a myth

Fanny and Alexander is a sitcom, a farce, a myth.

with humor and for the family love

Fanny and Alexander is a relationship drama filled with humor and love for the family.

Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander , known affectionately as Fanny Alexander,

Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, known affectionately as Fanny Alexander, is one of the great Irish and Anglican hymn-writers and poets.

most clearly and obviously about the pleasures of family — even the farting, adulterous and shame-faced family that’s so often exposed here

Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman’s ostensible valedictory film, is most clearly and obviously about the pleasures of family — even the farting, adulterous and shame-faced family that’s so often exposed here.