Sunday's Children

In his feature directing debut, Daniel Bergman, son of legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, takes an autobiographical screenplay by his father and transforms it into a haunting cinematic remembrance of a 1920s summer in rural Sweden. Displaying a lyrical, sometimes surreal, visual style, young Bergman--perhaps not deliberately--has made a sequel of sorts to his father's FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982) and Bille August's film of Ingmar Bergman's screenplay, BEST INTENTIONS (1992).

SUNDAY'S CHILDREN captures two memorable days in the life of an Ingmar Bergman surrogate figure, the eight-year-old Pu (Henrik Linnros), who is spending the summer of 1926 amid the pastoral ...