Fanny & Alexander is the other film we like to watch over the Christmas Holidays.Here's a movie trailer on YouTube that can give you an idea of the MAGIC of this film.
Here's my all-time favorite scene of Christmas Eve at the Ekdahls :
"Christmas Eve was always a production at our house. The towering tree in the central hall, covered with shiny red ornaments, draped in silvery tinsel, lighted with real candles. The staff, in their long black uniforms with starched white aprons and caps, setting out piles of generously wrapped gifts underneath the tree. There were tall white candles on the dining table, where after dinner (which always began at 4:30 pm) we sang and toasted everyone's health. Mother wore red brocade and Father, like all the men in the family, wore white tie. Eventually we all held hands and danced through the house, singing until we fell exhusted, into our chairs and listened to an uncle read the Nativity story from the second chapter of Luke. In lovely, lilting Swedish. Oh, no, wait. That was Fanny & Alexander."
--Anita Gates, "Holiday Films : Celluloid Visions are What Dance in My Head, New York times, November 5, 2000.
It's neat to see this wonderful film has had a similar effect on other people! For us, it just isn't Christmas without seeing this wonderful film with the family dancing through the apartment singing, "Uyauyaly" (whatever that means!)
Fanny and Alexander came out in 1982 and depicts a wonderful Christmas in turn-of-the-century Sweden. It is filled with so much light, laughter, and RED, a few tears, family (great and exasperating). Wonderful characters, as you would expect in any Ingmar Bergman film!
And Isaac's apartment is a place of MAGIC, literally. There's so much STUFF there : puppets and books and antiques, and a crazy brother ...
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