Title:
Babette's feast
Publication Date as Range:
2013
2013,
1987
ISBN:
9781604657418
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, 2013.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Series:
Criterion collection; 665.
Criterion collection.
General Note:
Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features: new interview with Stephane Audran ; Karen Blixen: storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author ; visual essay by Michael Almereyda ; interview with sociologist Priscilla Prkhurst Ferguson ; trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: G; for mild frightening scenes, violence, usage of alcohol and smoking.
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