Rent Babette's Feast (1987)
3.9 of 5 from 183 ratings
1h 44min
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- Synopsis:
- When Babette (Stéphane Audran), a beautiful and mysterious French refugee, arrives in a remote Danish town the tight-knit, puritanical community begrudgingly let her in, providing her with shelter and work. But after the town patriarch passes away and Babette insists on preparing a feast in his honor, a magical world of sensory revelations is thrown open to the villagers, changing their lives forever...
- Actors:
- Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson, Ghita Nørby, Asta Esper Hagen Andersen, Thomas Antoni, Gert Bastian, Viggo Bentzon, Vibeke Hastrup, Therese Højgaard Christensen, Pouel Kern, Cay Kristiansen, Lars Lohmann, Tine Miehe-Renard, Lisbeth Movin, Finn Nielsen, Holger Perfort
- Directors:
- Gabriel Axel
- Producers:
- Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, Benni Korzen, Pernille Siesbye
- Narrated By:
- Ghita Nørby
- Writers:
- Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel
- Others:
- Henning Kristiansen
- Aka:
- Babettes gæstebud
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's Euro 24 Film Festival, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Instant Expert's Guide to Claude Chabrol, The Last Laugh: The Film That Changed Cinema
- Countries:
- Denmark
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/02/2013
- Run Time:
- 108 minutes
- Languages:
- Danish LPCM Stereo, French LPCM Stereo, Swedish LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interview with Actress Stephane Audran
- Theatrical Trailers
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Reviews (3) of Babette's Feast
Cult - Babette's Feast review by JD
If you've enjoyed Transformers 1, 2, 3, and 4 and look forward to 5, 6, 7, and 8 this is not for you. If you prefer the way-off mainstream, cult film you have hit solid gold. This is a slow moving bleak story about repressed emotion, Lutherian purity, poverty, and thwarted passion in a rural remote Danish coastal village set during the French revolution. I enjoyed some of the scenes in a sober and settled sort of way. Most of it however is about love which will never be realised or allowed, be it love of cooking, or of a woman. This should have a 40 certificate, few under 40 will enjoy it, some over 50 will really like it.
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Delightful - Babette's Feast review by Ianto
This is a delightful and well observed film but as a previous reviewer has said it is aimed at a more mature audience and wont appeal if your usual fare is Hollywood block-busters.
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Fundamentally flawed - Babette's Feast review by DT
Can't imagine how bad the original draft script was which when combined with terrible screen play and poor casting is, well, simply crap
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