Fanny and Alexander

This is the sum total of all of Ingmar Bergman’s film knowledge he had accumulated over decades, starting in the 1940s. It’s his longest and most sophisticated work both visually and narratively. It gets the adjective Dickensian used to describe it quite a bit, and it fits very well. To me, Fanny and Alexander feels like a combination of Oliver Twist, The Magnificent Ambersons, and ___.

According to Netflix, I’ve seen and rated the theatrical version of this, but I watched the television ver...