One of my alltime favorite movies is out now in the Criterion Collection, Fanny and Alexander. The movie was originally released in 1983 and is a career retrospective of famous Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. If you're interested in prepurchasing a copy, click here. This was the Swan Song of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and it is an eloquent statement about loving people just the way they are. The family he depicts are varied and realistic, each in his or her own way. Like many European films, there is more introspection and less "A C T I O N" than in American films and, as such, it is especially appealing to an introvert like me. Most of the story is told through the eyes of the young boy, Alexander.
By the way, there is an excellent depiction of a "highly sensitive person" in this film, the child who is being cared for by a Jewish man in the village, who is the town Money Lender but also a Magician, a Wizard, a Collector and the lover of the main character in the film, the Matriarch, over a lifetime. The depiction of the "sensitive" is just excellent.
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