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Babette's Feast - (La fiesta de Babette)
1987 -
Denmark /
France
- 102 min. -
Feature,
Color
Director:
Gabriel Axel
Cast:
Stéphane Audran,
Jean-Philippe
Lafont,
Gudmar Wivesson,
Jarl Kulle,
Bibi Andersson,
Hanne Stensgaard
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
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Audio: English Mono /
Danish & French Stereo Surround
- Lang.: Sub. English,
French &
Spanish
Alquílela
por (rent it for): $3.77
(dos días - two days)
Si vive en
Weston (if you live in Weston)
Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
The Danish/French
Babette's Feast
is based on a story by
Isak
Dinesen, also the source of the very different
Out of Africa
(1985). Stephane
Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks
shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil
Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte
Federspiel), the elderly daughters of the town's long-dead minister, take
Babette in. As revealed in flashback, Philippa and Martina were once beautiful
young women (played by
Hanne Stensgaard
and Vibeke
Hastrup), who'd forsaken their chances at romance and fame, taking hollow
refuge in religion. Babette holds a secret that may very well allow the older
ladies to have a second chance at life. This is one of the great movies about
food, but there are way too many surprises in
Babette's Feast
to allow us to reveal anything else at this point (except that
Ingmar Bergman
"regulars" Bibi
Andersson and
Jarl Kulle
have significant cameo roles). Suffice to say that the film more than earned
its Best Foreign Film Oscar, and that you'll be kicking yourself if you don't
see it.
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