Babette's Feast
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Letterboxed
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 04 March, 1988
DVD Release : 23 January, 2001 |
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Babette's Feast description
Some 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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Northern starkness meets French cuisine
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| Lovely, delightful, charming re-telling of one of Karen Blixen's most characteristic stories. Huston's "The Dead" may have preceded and perhaps inspired it, but "Babette's Feast" is actually an even better, sweeter, more brilliantly acted, written and directed film. Personally, I lean more to Scandinavia than Ireland. I won't recount the plot, and I still can't understand why reviewers think that repeating the plot is a review: once is enough, please. Please. I can only make a few comments. First of all, the General's name is Lowenhielm, which means Lion Helmet, and he is not Danish in the slightest, even though he has a Danish aunt, but 100% Swedish. Jarl Kulle was one of Sweden's greatest actors. He died in 1997. Throughout the movie he is speaking in Swedish, which Danes can understand and vice versa. Not that it matters, but I would have thought that even an Amazon reviewer, although an American, would try to get things right. Secondly, this is a lovely and wonderful summing-up of life's traumas and vicissitudes. We have to face the slings and arrows that life hands us, and come out of it with chins up, still able to derive comfort from whatever fate delivers, whether it kills our spouse and child, or whether it suddenly offers us a winning ticket. There is a beauty and an artistry in giving to others, regardless of cost. We are all going to die, in the end. Why not give what we can, while we can? |
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