DVD
Babette's feast = Babettes gæstebud
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Languages
In Danish, French, and Swedish, with English subtitles.
Performers
Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: G.
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.
Notes
Title from container.
From a story by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features: interviews with director Gabriel Axel and actor Stephane Audran ; Karen Blixen--storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author of the film's source story ; visual essay by Michael Almereyda ; interview with sociologist Priscilla Prkhurst Ferguson about the significance of cuisine in French culture.