Given the way this sprawling three-hour theatrical edit echoes the director’s real childhood, it’s easy to say that Fanny and Alexander is an autobiography. In some ways, it is. The dynamic with their stepfather was directly inspired by the director’s own father. In the hands of another director, it would have been easy to demonize the guy. But this is Ingmar Bergman directing his final film, so it should be no surprise that he meditates over the storytelling both father and son use in carving out their realities. At the same time, Fanny and Alexander encapsulated many of Bergman’s thematic concerns, clearly at his most personal.