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- 1988
- G
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 43 m
- 1988
- G
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 43 m
Summary During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Directed By: Gabriel Axel
Written By: Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel
- 1988
- G
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 43 m
- 1988
- G
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 43 m
Babette's Feast
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8.4
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Summary During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Directed By: Gabriel Axel
Written By: Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
78
83% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
17% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Impeccably mounted and played, this is gastro-cinema at its most sensual and intoxicating.
All of this is by way of being the prelude to the film's extended, funny and moving final sequence, a spectacular feast, the preparation and execution of which reveal Babette's secret and the nature of her sustaining glory.
Babette's Feast isn't a fast-moving or flashy film. But it has a subtle charm and a warm humor that stick to your ribs far longer than the usual motion-picture glitz. [4 March 1988, p.21]
This banquet is the glorious finale of Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, his handsome, understated adaptation of the Isak Dinesen short story.
Twenty-five years on, the story is still charming and beguiling.
While Babette’s Feast is bleak, and often ponderous and stony, it eventually resolves as a moving hymn to art.
The story’s poignant theme—that love and art retain their beauty even if they can only be indulged once in a lifetime—registers more as an afterthought than as the soul-stirring revelation clearly intended.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
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8.4
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Production Company
Panorama Film A/S,
Nordisk Film,
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Rungstedlundfonden
Release Date Mar 4, 1988
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
