Babette’s Feast won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987 and was the first Danish production to ever take the prestigious award. It started a hot streak of sorts, when the following year Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror pretty much ran the table, claiming the Oscar, the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe, further confirming to the world that the Danish film industry had arrived. While the Danes would not win another Oscar until 2010, for Susanne Bier’s In a Better World, this tiny nation of just under six million souls has become a capital of cinematic creativity, boasting such talented filmmakers as Lars van Trier, Per Fly, Anders Thomas Jensen and Nicolas Winding Refn, to name a few. If the grand moralist dirges of Carl Th. Dreyer define Danish cinema of the WWII generation, then Babette’s Feast must be considered the nation’s inspirational...
- 7/23/2013
- by David Anderson
- IONCINEMA.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 23, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The 1987 Danish film drama Babette’s Feast, an Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is at once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food.
Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, the movie relates the layered tale of a French housekeeper (Stephane Audran) with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th Century Denmark.
Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in its mouth-watering depiction of fooooooooood! It’s quite a pleasure to digest…!
Presented in Danish with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions of Babette’s Feast contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The 1987 Danish film drama Babette’s Feast, an Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is at once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food.
Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, the movie relates the layered tale of a French housekeeper (Stephane Audran) with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th Century Denmark.
Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in its mouth-watering depiction of fooooooooood! It’s quite a pleasure to digest…!
Presented in Danish with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions of Babette’s Feast contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray...
- 4/24/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Gabriel Axel was 70 when, in 1987, he rose above accomplished run-of-the-mill movies to make this cinematic, gastronomic treat starring Stéphane Audran, Claude Chabrol's former wife, as a great French cook fleeing from the confusions of the Franco-Prussian war and the Paris commune in 1870, and settling in a remote corner of Scandinavia. Her kindly hosts run an austere community for the elderly that rejects all worldly pleasures, and Babette proves a devoted servant. But after winning a lottery she decides to tickle their palates with the meal of a lifetime, a blowout that makes most TV gourmet programmes look like a Bowery soup kitchen. It's a flawless adaptation of the story Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) wrote for a bet that she could be published in the popular middlebrow Saturday Evening Post. She lost, but the story was accepted by the more discerning Ladies' Home Journal. The film version, re-released here for the 25th anniversary,...
- 12/16/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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