Babette’s Feast
Directed by Gabriel Axel
Denmark | Fiction | 1987 | 105 min | Danish/Swedish/French w/English subtitles
30th anniversary of the film’s release.
The screening will be preceded by a reception & cash bar at 5:30
With so many ways to approach the subject of food and its impact on the world, we couldn’t help but end this festival with a celebration of the pleasures of taste and smell. Babette, the wonderful Stéphane Audran, cooks up the most tantalizing feast for the Protestant villagers on Denmark’s remote Jutland coast. Taking place in mid-19th Century Europe, the film is as much a paean to French haute cuisine as it is to the pleasures of the flesh, pitting puritan morals against Catholic sensuality. Beautifully paced, filmed and scripted, gentle and humorous, this film will perhaps make one yearn for a time when, with no qualms, one could just enjoy great food expertly and lovingly cooked.
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