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Babette's Feast was met with widespread critical acclaim and became the first Danish film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival .
- Gabriel Axel
- Gabriel Axel
- Babette's Feast, by Isak Dinesen
Mar 4, 1988 · A 1987 Oscar-winning film based on a short story by Karen Blixen. It follows the story of two sisters who live in a remote Danish village and their servant Babette, who cooks a lavish French meal for them as a gift.
- Gabriel Axel
- 127
- 1 min
Denmark, 1870s. Two deeply religious elderly sisters living in an isolated village take in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian war, Babette. She becomes their housekeeper and is happy to work for no pay. 14 years later, Babette wins a large amount of money in a lottery.
Movie Info. Beautiful but pious sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) grow to spinsterhood under the wrathful eye of their strict pastor father on the forbidding and...
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- Gabriel Axel
- G
- Stéphane Audran
Two devout and elderly sisters allow their cook, a French refugee, to prepare a feast in honor of their late father's 100th birthday, despite their spiritual concerns over the sensuality and decadence of French cuisine. Foreign language with English Subtitles. 2,388 IMDb 7.8 1 h 43 min 1988. X-Ray G.
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who ...
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Dec 13, 2012 · Babette's Feast – review This article is more than 11 years old Gabriel Axel's film about a giant repast bequeathed on a 19th-century Danish religious community still charms 25 years on
