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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Gabriel Axel |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 04 March, 1988 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
| MPAA RATING: | G (General Audience) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Color, Danish, Deliberate, Denmark, Drama, Earnest, Eccentric Families, Elegant, Family Drama, Feature, Foreign, Foreign Film - French, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], France, French, Heartwarming, High Artistic Quality, High Production Values, Movie, Nostalgic |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616857958 |
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Customer Reviews of Babette's Feast
Babette's Feast This well shot low budget film tells the story of 2 devout daughters of a zealously religous man who choose to remain with their father in lieu of marriage and a wonderful singing career. Following his death the girls remain in the small isolated village on the coast of Denmark living austere unremarkable lives until Babette comes to stay, a refuge from the French civil war. Babette works as a servant to the 2 sisters until she receives unexpected wealth. She elects to share her wealth with the elders of the village by providing them with a sumptuous gourmet french meal,with some unexpected results. Initially a bit slow to get moving.
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for anyone desiring to see what the difference between a Hollywood film and a foreign film is, this is the one to watch. Babette's Feast is a scrumptious delight. A simple story about a mysterious French woman who comes to the coast of Denmark and works for 14 years as a cook to two pious Danish sisters. The story slowly unravels like a great masterpiece and when the French cook wins a lottery all the pieces come together to reveal a gorgeous mosaic of humanity. Full of simplicity, humor, and insight to the human condition. Simple, funny, gorgeous and delightfully delicious.
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The same gentle irony that Karen Blixen brought to the interplay of faith and human experience in OUT OF AFRICA is to be observed in full flower in this delightfully quirky film adaptation of her short story called BABETTE'S FEAST. Blixen found the French fathers in Kenya a bit rigid and self-interested, yet she expressed this with kindness and patience. She does the same here with her Lutheran Danes.
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>The romantic exuberance of the French servant-woman Babette as she brings to the island village that is her refuge the sensuality of a lavish feast does not reduce the disciplined and selfless orthodoxy of the Lutheran sect to ridicule. Rather, there is room for a certain conversion in *both* directions, a cross-pollenation that Blixen and her cinematic interpreters allow themselves to relish.
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>Blixen left us a great story. It has been made into a memorable film that belongs on the 'keeper' shelf of viewers who love a story.
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>BABETTE'S FEAST is a full plate for the heart.