24 / Fanny & Alexander / Ingmar Bergman

Where to even start when talking about Fanny & Alexander? First off, technically I didn't actually watch the 3 hour long film version and instead decided to go for the 5 and a half hour long mini series. Having not seen the 3 hour version I can't say which is better, but there was not 1 second of the version I watched that I would want to loose. Other than the technicalities what is there to say? It's a masterpiece. I have never been so moved and awestruck by a piece of cinema as I was by this.

I keep trying to write paragraphs, but nothing comes up. I want to write about how I have never seen a film so extraordinarily well acted. I want to write about how, even after 5 hours I could have happily watched more, I never wanted to leave the world Bergman had crafter. I feel like my mind has been opened to so much through watching this, and yet I can't verbalise it. I give up. I shall have to leave my thoughts in my head for now. It sounds unbearably trite and cliche to say, but I really feel like I will look back on Fanny & Alexander as one of those defining pieces of art that really changed my life. And maybe only then, future me will have found a way to adequately sum up all the deep thoughts and emotions it has raised.