Babette’s Feast
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 deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly 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. Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne.
Special Features
- New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interviews with director Gabriel Axel and actor Stéphane Audran
- Karen Blixen—Storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author of the film’s source story, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen
- New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
- New interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson about the significance of cuisine in French culture
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and, for the Blu-ray edition, Dinesen’s 1950 story
New cover by Sarah Habibi
Special Features
- New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interviews with director Gabriel Axel and actor Stéphane Audran
- Karen Blixen—Storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author of the film’s source story, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen
- New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
- New interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson about the significance of cuisine in French culture
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and, for the Blu-ray edition, Dinesen’s 1950 story
New cover by Sarah Habibi
Cast
- Stéphane Audran
- Babette Hersant
- Bodil Kjer
- Filippa
- Birgitte Federspiel
- Martine
- Jarl Kulle
- General Lorens Löwenhielm
- Jean-Philippe Lafont
- Achille Papin
- Bibi Andersson
- Swedish lady-in-waiting
- Vibeke Hastrup
- Young Martine
- Hanne Stensgaard
- Young Filippa
- Lisbeth Movin
- Widow
- Ebbe Rode
- Christopher
- Bendt Rothe
- Old Nielsen
- Preben Lerdorff Rye
- Captain
- Axel Strøbye
- Driver
- Gudmar Wivesson
- Lieutenant Lorens Löwenhielm
- Ghita Nørby
- Narrator
Credits
- Director
- Gabriel Axel
- Screenplay
- Gabriel Axel
- From a story by
- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
- Director of photography
- Henning Kristiansen
- Edited by
- Finn Henriksen
- Production design
- Sven Wichmann
- Composer
- Per Nørgaard
- Gastronomic consultant
- Jan Pedersen
- Costumes
- Annelise Hauberg
- Produced by
- Just Betzer
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