Babette's Feast
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Movie Reviews of Babette's Feast
Movie Review: Beautiful--truly beautiful!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is another one of those movies I wish I hadn't waited so long to see. This is a truly wonderful movie that had me engrossed from the beginning.
As this is a subtitled movie (if you are English-speaking), you have to make sure you can pay full attention to the whole film. If you can, you are in for a treat. The whole story is so simple that it could be described in about three sentences--yet it somehow grips you. There is a suspense and anticipation that builds towards the inevitable(?) resolution.
Truly, while this story does revolve around a feast (and food), it is so much more than that, and that's what I've misunderstood. I thought, "How good can a movie *about* food be?" But it's a movie about a simple people who are able to draw close because of a special meal. The actors are wonderful, the story is wonderful, and the heart-warming nature of this film is a real joy!
Please don't miss this one!
Movie Review: Spectacular, delicious, beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
Toward the end of this beautiful movie, the origin of the title becomes clear. Babette, a refugee, has spent 14 years as a cook in the home of two fervently religious sisters who live in a village of like-minded, conservative, ser-in-their-own-ways country folk. When Babette wins the lottery, she (a former gourmet chef) spends every centime on the preparation of a sumptuous feast of many courses with separate wines for each as her offering of gratitude for their sheltering her. To watch the arrival of the exotic ingredients, the preparation, the serving, the gradual loosening of tight strictures as the villagers sample, taste, savor, and dive in, tongues and belts and opinions gradually loosened by the effects of exquisite food and wine, is to be seduced as surely as by a lover.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. This is the movie, made in 1988, that started the spate of other food genre films.
Movie Review: I'm sorry for those who don't get it.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie to be savored by all who think of themselves as artists. Especially if your artistic gift or talent is the essence of who you are and your circumstance seems to prevent exercising it. What if "they" (your potential audience) doesn't want your gift? Can you survive and even prosper or do you collapse into yourself? The ultimate "What if:" What if you feel you must choose between exercising your gift and sacrificing it for something even more important? In many respects this movie has the same basic theme as "Amadaeus." Soliari chose an entirely different response to being thwarted than Babette and the sisters did. Show the two movies back to back in a group and then discuss talents, gifts, opportunity, mentoring, audience, gratitude, and sacrifice. What music would we have from Mozart if Soliari had been like Babette? It'll be a great evening of talk.
Movie Review: Bursting with religious symbolism and metaphor
Summary: 5 Stars
"Babette's Feast" is one of my favorite films. I haven't read all the reviews that have been posted so I don't know if anyone has mentioned it already, but this film is bursting with Christian symbolism and metaphor, particularly of the Eucharist.
I am not referring to the pious sisters and their fellow congregants; I am referring to the arrival, service, and sacrifice of Babette, who can be seen as a Christ-figure. She comes as an exile to a lowly place and spends her life in uncomplaining service to the two sisters. Then she sacrifices everything she has to create a feast which transforms its (undeserving) partakers into people able to leave pettiness behind and "have life more abundantly." And she begrudges none of it.
I am not especially religious, but these things always come to mind when I watch this film. It is a pure delight, with a transforming message.
Movie Review: Do yourself a favor and watch this movie - then share it.
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know about you, but I LOVE to have experiences that just fill me with joy. Even better, if it's an experience that is easily shared, I like sharing it with my friends and loved ones. This film is one of those experiences. This DVD is an excellent transfer and you can just SMELL the feast that Babette is cooking up in the centerpiece of the story. But the story isn't about the feast any more than "Casablanca" is about a city in Morocco. The story is about sacrifice and friendship and honor. Many characters in this film make difficult choices during their lives, and although you don't necessarily see regret over and over, you can plainly see silent reflective thoughts about "what might have been".If movies are shown in heaven, I would guess that the group of angels gathered in front of the current showing of "Babette's Feast" is a large one.