This impeccably plated set is as savory as the brains sucked out of a quail’s head by Jarl Kulle’s General Löwenhielm.
Babette's Feast(Babettes gæstebud)
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Denmark · 1987
Rated G · 1h 43m
Director Gabriel Axel
Starring Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle
Genre Comedy, Drama
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A powerful film about a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite and wildly expensive meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark. Babbete’s Feast is a beautiful and intoxicating gastronomic journey.
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Impeccably mounted and played, this is gastro-cinema at its most sensual and intoxicating.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
This banquet is the glorious finale of Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, his handsome, understated adaptation of the Isak Dinesen short story.
Chicago Tribune by Gene Siskel
A strangely powerful yet meandering film that takes a long time to make its point.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
The story’s poignant theme—that love and art retain their beauty even if they can only be indulged once in a lifetime—registers more as an afterthought than as the soul-stirring revelation clearly intended.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Twenty-five years on, the story is still charming and beguiling.
Los Angeles Times by Sheila Benson
The delectable Babette’s Feast is a fable told with passion, intelligence and sumptuousness. Although it certainly has a feast at its center, it would be a mistake to think that its tribute is intended only for great cooks. No, it’s a deep reverence to all great artists--whether they make books, bowls or ballets, baskets, quilts, songs, poems, paintings . . . or films.
The Dissolve by Tasha Robinson
While Babette’s Feast is bleak, and often ponderous and stony, it eventually resolves as a moving hymn to art.
The whole climax is a delight
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
All of this is by way of being the prelude to the film's extended, funny and moving final sequence, a spectacular feast, the preparation and execution of which reveal Babette's secret and the nature of her sustaining glory.
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