Based on the story by Isak Dinesen. Jarl Kulle, Stephane Audran.
Contents:
Disc one. There once lived two sisters -- Lieutenant Löwenhielm -- Each time, he grew more insignificant -- Achille Papin, from Paris -- Singing lessons -- Madame Babette Hersant -- Cooking lessons -- Fourteen years later -- Schisms in the congregation -- It's from France -- Babette asks a favor -- Babette returns, with goods -- As if we never had the sense of taste -- Preparations -- General Löwenhielm -- They're here -- Babette says dinner is served -- Champagne, Blinis Demidoff -- Cailles en sarcophage -- Salad -- The general's toast -- Figs, grapes, and melon -- Coffee, cognac fine champagne -- It is time for us to leave -- It was a very good dinner -- Trailer -- Disc two. Gabriel Axel -- Stéphane Audran -- Table scraps -- Karen Blixen : storyteller -- An artist of the everyday.
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 deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly 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. Babette's Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne. - Container.
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