Karen Blixen's Babettes gæstebud [videorecording] / Just Betzer præsenterer ; en film af Gabriel Axel ; drejebog efter Gabriel Axel ; produceret af A-S Panorama Film International, København ; i samarbejde Nordisk Film og Det Danske Filminstitut ved konsulent Claes Kastholm Hansen ; producenter, Just Betzer of Bo Christensen.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Two-DVD special ed.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson ; narrator, Ghita Nørby. Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Special features: Disc 1: Trailer. Disc 2: Gabriel Axel (new interview with the director); Stéphane Audran (new interview with the actor); Table scraps (visual essay by Michael Almereyda of book to film, narrated by Lori Singer); Karen Blixen - storyteller (a 1995 documentary about the author); An artist of the everyday (interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson). Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and Dinesen's 1950 story.
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.
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