Babette's feast
(2013, original release: 1987)

Fiction

DVD

Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/DANISH/BABETTE'S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/DANISH/BABETTE'S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2013
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9786315104954 CC2278DDVD, 6315104959 :, 715515132718, 715515107617
LANGUAGE
Danish
NOTES

Title from web page

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

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

Stephane Audran, Jarl Kulle, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel

MPAA rating: G; for mild frightening scenes, violence, usage of alcohol and smoking

DVD, widescreen (1.66:1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital 2.0 Surround

Danish, French or Swedish dialogue; English subtitles

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