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Mood:
- ContemplativeSincereTouchingCaptivatingAtmospheric
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Plot:
- Siblings RelationsVillage LifeCooking and FoodElderlyFamily RelationsSocial RelationsGolden YearsAging more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 19th Century
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Place:
- DenmarkEuropeVillage
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Based on:
- Based on Short Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Babette's Feast, 1987
Danish, Swedish, French
Denmark
Profile of Babette's Feast
Babette's Feast can be described as contemplative, sincere, and captivating. The plot revolves around cooking and food, elderly characters, and village life. The main genres are drama, foreign, and period. In approach, Babette's Feast is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in a village. Babette's Feast is located in Denmark. It takes place in the 19th century. It is derived from a short story. Babette's Feast has received attention for being an Oscar winner, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Babette's Feast
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.
Details
| Language: | Danish, Swedish, French |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Release date: | 1 October 1987 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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- 19.March.2009
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- by: Brad Cole
- Brad Cole rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
