Babettes Gæstebud (1987)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 102 minuten
Alternative title: Babette's Feast
Country:
Denmark
Directed by: Gabriel Axel
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer and Jarl Kulle
IMDb score:
7,7 (23.990)
Releasedate: 11 August 1987
Babettes Gæstebud plot
"Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast."
Denmark, 19th century. Two grown sisters live in an isolated village with their father, a pastor. Their father is the founder of a strict pietistic faith community, a piety movement in the Lutheran Church. One day a French refugee, Babette, arrives. They take her in, where she works as a maid. After their father dies, the sisters organize a commemoration party. Babette manages to persuade them to be allowed to prepare the feast. It will be a time to remember for the villagers.
Actors and actresses
Babette Hersant
Filippa
Martine
Gen. Lorens Löwenhielm
Achille Papin
Swedish Lady-in-Waiting
Narrator (voice)
Swedish Lieutenant
Young Filippa
Reviews & comments
baspls
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- 4118 messages
- 1673 votes
Babettes Gæstebud is a strong Danish costume drama about a Catholic French woman who lives in the Danish countryside with the daughters of a Puritan pastor. On the occasion of the birthday of this deceased pastor, she is preparing a grand, luxurious dinner.
What is striking about the film is that it does not attempt to tell a spectacular story, but that it sketches a good picture of the time and that an episode from the life of this Danish community is told in a light-hearted way. Which was also well portrayed, especially the dinner.
This is a movie that will make you hungry.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Filmkriebel
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- 10133 messages
- 4741 votes
I can't say I liked this movie. If I wasn't a movie buff, I might have given the film even less. Fortunately, I saw some very beautiful photography here, with village and interior scenes that could have been captured in a painting. Every image is so beautiful. Unfortunately, I found the content to be dry and uninteresting. We've known it for a long time: eating together at a restaurant makes us all looser, more talkative, more sociable... In Babettes Feast, the oldies are just less dry than usual. Fortunately, the general was still among them. I didn't expect an orgy, but some laughter and jokes could certainly pass here to make the film end in something more spectacular than the candle being blown out.
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