Rent Babette's Feast (1987)
3.9 of 5 from 188 ratings
1h 44min
- General info
- Available formats
- 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:
- A Brief History of Screen Cuisine, Cinema Paradiso's Euro 24 Film Festival, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Alexander Payne, 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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