Stéphane Audran
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Fifteen years after rejecting their suitors, Martine and Philippa are joined by a French woman named Babette, who appears at their doorstep exhausted, wild-eyed, and impoverished after escaping...
The story follows two religious sisters whose lives and community are altered forever when their French refugee maid, Babette, wins a lottery and uses her winnings to prepare a sumptuous French feast for her ascetic mistresses and their congregation.
Plot. The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine and Filippa live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. Their late father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. Lacking new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling, elderly congregation.
Sixty-five years ago, in Norway, in a small town called Berlevaag, nested at the foot of tall mountains overlooking a fjord, two elderly ladies lived in one small house. They were called Martine and Philippa, christened after Martin Luther and his friend Philip Melanchton.
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in Babette (Audran), a French refugee, as a family cook to the late pastor's daughters. Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation.
Aug 31, 2019 · A summary of Babette's Feast, the 1958 short story by Isak Dinesen, and how it compares with the acclaimed 1987 film of the same name.
Dive deep into Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
