Babette’s Feast
Still good enough to eat.
Babette’s Feast
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne.
Genre
Drama,
Food,
Anniversary Classics
Runtime
102
Language
Danish,
Swedish,
French
Director
Gabriel Axel
Writer(s)
Gabriel Axel
Cast
Stéphane Audran,
Bodil Kjer,
Birgitte Federspiel
Awards:
Winner, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards
Winner, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury ~ Special Mention, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globes
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Philip Kemp, Total Film
One of the great foodie movies, Gabriel Axel’s adaptation of a story by Danish author Karen Blixen (Out Of Africa) picked up the 1987 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. In the title role, Stéphane Audran plays a mysterious Frenchwoman who in 1871 comes to an austere Lutheran community in Jutland and is ...
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Glendale 11.21.23 - 11.21.23
Newhall 11.21.23 - 11.21.23
Claremont 5 11.21.23 - 11.21.23
Royal 11.21.23 - 11.21.23
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