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Babette's Feast Details

1987

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Starring	Stephane Audran, Bibi Andersson, Jean-Phillippe La Font, Jarl Kulle
Director	Gabriel Axel
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Babette's Feast

The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel), the elderly daughters of the town's long-dead minister, take Babette in. As revealed in flashback, Philippa and Martina were once beautiful young women (played by Hanne Stensgaard and Vibeke Hastrup), who'd forsaken their chances at romance and fame, taking hollow refuge in religion. Babette holds a secret that may very well allow the older ladies to have a second chance at life. This is one of the great movies about food, but there are way too many surprises in Babette's Feast to allow us to reveal anything else at this point (except that Ingmar Bergman regulars Bibi Andersson and Jarl Kulle have significant cameo roles)..~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring	Stephane Audran, Bibi Andersson, Jean-Phillippe La Font, Jarl Kulle
Director	Gabriel Axel
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 43 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate
Collections	Netherlands vs Denmark
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Danish Blu-ray: Danish
Dubbed	Danish, English, French, Italian
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: English, French, Italian
Released	Production year: 1987 To Rent: DVD: 01 Jul 2002 Blu-ray: 28 May 2012

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- Why, in the 1870s, would a Parisienne (Audran), an acclaimed chef, be working for a pittance for two elderly sisters... read more on Time Out
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  Magnificent...
  
  A stranger arrives in an austere, Scandinavian community where dried fish is the mainstay...comes into some money and blows the lot on the most magnificent ... read more »
  
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  An all time classic
  
  Seeing it again after many years I can't believe how much I'd missed. Such a perfectly constructed, balanced film - vivacious colour and plain ... read more »
  
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  Not a herring
  
  It felt as if it was in black and white, so claustrophobic... but pays to be seen several times to pick up the subtleties... if you want an action movie, watch ... read more »
  
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  Delightful film
  
  This is a delightful and wonderful celebration of life. Through hardship and self deprecation a group of austere people gathers around a spiritual leader. About... read more »
  
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In the Best Possible Taste: The Foodie Movie
- 08 Oct 2007
It was in Breakfast of Champions that Kurt Vonnegut imagined life on a planet devoid of all plants and animals save humanoids. These humanoids took pleasure in (to our minds) an exotic, even aberrant form of pornography. It wasn't the sexual act that repelled and transfixed them. It was images of food and eating. For an hour and a half, the movie camera barely strayed from close ups of lips, teeth, and bobbing Adam's apples as a family pigged out over a simulated meal. At the film's climax,... Read more
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  Fully restored and available on Blu-ray for the very first time, Gabriel Axel’s celebrated Oscar-winning classic remains as charming, entertaining and mouth-watering as ever, Adapted from a story by ‘Out of Africa’ author Isak Dinesen, it tells the story of a 19th Century ...

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  The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte ...