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Title:

Babette's feast [videorecording] / writers, Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel ; directed by Gabriel Axel.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet.

Subject:

DVDs--Movie.
DVDs--Motion picture.
DVDs.
Christian life--Denmark--19th century--Drama.
Cooking, French--Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.

Other Authors:

Blixen, Karen, 1885-1962.
Axel, Gabriel.
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962.
Audran, St℗♭́Ưphane, 1932-
Kulle, Jarl, 1927-
Kjer, Bodil, 1917-
Federspiel, Birgitte.
Criterion Collection (Firm).

Notes:

Title from web page. Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen. originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Special features: new interview with Stephane Audran ; Karen Blixen: storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author ; visual essay by Michael Almereyda ; interview with sociologist Priscilla Prkhurst Ferguson ; trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu. Stephane Audran, Jarl Kulle, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel.

Summary:

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 layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.

Series:

Criterion collection

UPC:

715515132718

Locations:

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)