Babette's Feast
by Gabriel Axel
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Actor: Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont, St?phane AudranDirector: Gabriel Axel
Cinematographer: Henning Kristiansen
Writer: Gabriel Axel
Producer: Benni Korzen
Producer: Bo Christensen
Producer: Just Betzer
Producer: Pernille Siesbye
Writer: Karen Blixen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Danish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Babette's Feast
Movie Review: A Feast of a Film
Summary: 5 Stars
It's well worth reading the subtitles. Into a culture that thinks they are doing everything right because of their sacrifices, comes Babette. She teaches them that sensual pleasures are a part of the abundant life and have their place among the sacrifices that are required in life. It's a movie about grace, love, devotion to duty, and the rightness of sharing good food with friends.
Summary of Babette's Feast
Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast. Written and directed by Gabriel Axel, from a short story by Out of Africa's Isak Dinesen, this Oscar(r)-winning*film offers "an irresistible mixture of dry wit and robust humanity" (Newsweek). Onthe desolate coast of Denmark live Martina and Philippa, the beautiful daughters of a devout clergyman who preaches salvation through self-denial. Both girls sacrifice youthful passion to faith and duty, and even many years after their father's death, they keep his austere teachings alive among thetownspeople. But with the arrival of Babette, a mysterious refugee from France's civil war, life for the sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Soon, Babette has convinced them to try something truly outrageousa gourmet French meal! Her feast, of course, scandalizes the local elders. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure? *1987: Foreign Language FilmSome movies can only be described as delicious. In Babette's Feast, a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real French dinner--which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. Joining them for the meal will be a Danish general who, as a young soldier, courted one of the sisters, but she turned him away because of her religion. The village elders all resolve not to enjoy the meal, but can their moral fiber resist the sensual pleasure of Babette's cooking? Babette's Feast deservedly won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This lovely movie is impeccably simple, yet its slender narrative contains a wealth of humor, melancholy, and hope. --Bret Fetzer
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