Babette's Feast (Criterion Collection) G
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 4, 2014
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Pouel Kern | |
Performer: | Hanne Stensgard, Bodil Kjer, Vibeke Hastrup, Birgitte Federspiel & Stéphane Audran | |
Directed by | Gabriel Axel | |
Screenwriting by | Gabriel Axel | |
Produced by | Just Betzer & Bo Christensen | |
Director of Photography: | Henning Kristiansen |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
97%
TOMATOMETER
...This is a movie to be savored with a hungry mind and a clear palate...
Film Comment
...Axel succeeds where it really counts. On the screen he serves up the famous dinner with vigor and in enough juicy detail to send audiences away longing to partake in similar haute cuisine...
Variety
...A lottery ticket to culinary paradise...
Entertainment Weekly
...Stephane Audran, a staple of French films two decades ago, plays the title culinary artist. Sublime...
Chicago Bulletin
...The delectable BABETTE'S FEAST is a fable told with passion, intelligence and sumptuousness....It's a deep reverence to all great artists...
Los Angeles Times
4 stars out of 5 -- Audran is luminous as the centre of a gentle, generous film about grace.
Total Film
...A very handsome, very literary movie that does justice to the precision of [Dinesen]....Audran dominates...
New York Times
Product Description:
This Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film was a big art house hit, spawning a whole international subgenre, "foodie" (films about the liberating effects of good food). It's adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen about two sisters in a 19th century Calvinist settlement in Denmark who, under their late father's rigorous spiritual dictates, pass up their chances for romance and worldly success. Years pass; they grow into charitable old spinsters and one day a French war refugee, Babette (Stéphane Audran), comes to work for them. Life goes quietly one for years until one day Babette decides to prepare a lavish gourmet dinner for the elders of the town, even though the thought of such decadence makes the sisters fear for their Christian souls. This all may sound rather dull to some viewers, but rest assured, no one who has seen this film has ever regretted it. Even with its measured pacing and austere emotional palette this remains a riveting experience from the first frame to the last. The acting is marvelously naturalistic, and the cinematography evokes the dark beauty of 19th century Scandinavian paintings, rendering the ancient, white-whiskered faces of the villagers, the windswept coastline, the wood-hewn interiors, and of course the incredible food, with a vital, deeply felt reverence that lingers in the mind long after the film is over.
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