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Title:
Babette's Feast = Babettes gæstebud
Added Title:
Karen Blixen -storyteller.
Series Number:
665.
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.
Audience:
MPAA rating: G; for mild frightening scenes, violence, usage of alcohol and smoking.
General Note:
Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.

Special features: Disc 1: Trailer. Disc 2: Gabriel Axel (new interview with the director); Stéphane Audran (new interview with the actor); Table scraps (visual essay by Michael Almereyda of book to film, narrated by Lori Singer); Karen Blixen - storyteller (a 1995 documentary about the author); An artist of the everyday (interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson). Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and Dinesen's 1950 story.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2013

1987
ISBN:
9781604657418

9781604659276
Publication Information:
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]

©2013
Call Number:
DVD BABETTE
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