Fanny och Alexander

Fanny and Alexander. Of course I am speaking of the three hour Swedish classic. Naturally, I attempted to acquire the original five hour version but was unable to find it at the local blockbuster. Ahh, little Fanny, frolicking in a puddle outside his parents' home in southern Sweden brings to me visions of my own youth. Alexander, slowly dying of tuburculosis, and still managing to finish his final water color on parchment of the Virgin Mary laying her dead son to rest in the snow by the foot of a lone pine tree. This is all uneducated conjecture as I have not yet seen the movie.