#Babette's Feast

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Throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me the chance to do my very best.

BABETTES GÆSTEBUD (BABETTE’S FEAST) 1987, Denmark, dir. Gabriel Axel

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blini with sour cream and caviar by hrabina99, inspired by babette's feast !

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Babette's Feast (1987). During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Just so sumptious and brimming with love. It's not hard to see why this is considered one of the best food films of all time, but it was the love stories within it that just hit me in the right spot. It's beautifully acted and tenderly told, and leans into the idea that not every love story is consumated or requited, but it doesn't mean they're not felt. Just a really, really beautiful film. 8/10.

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Japanese film poster for Babette's Feast (1987) dir. Gabriel Axel.

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Babette's Feast (1987)

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Babettes gæstebud

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1987  Babettes gæstebud

Babette's Feast

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sitting here literally crying just thinking about the ending of babette's feast because I am a soft touch. lmao

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The artist's cry

Babette's Feast. The artist's cry: 'Let it be possible for me to do the very best I can!' I went home smaller, ashamed of my agitated idleness, my unfinished story.

— Helen Garner, One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995 (Text Publishing Company, October 12, 2021)

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All is calm in small the small Norwegian town. Babette, a refugee from the French Revolution, cooks plain food for her Lutheran mistresses, and they attend to their prayer meetings with devotion. But when Babette hears she has won the lottery, she decides to treat her household to “a real French dinner”. Babette’s exquisitely executed feast – with its champagne, turtle soup and fresh figs – stands on its own, but also works as a symbol for the delicate and brilliant crafting of this beautiful story. A tale of faith, sacrifice and what it means to be a great artist, in any form.

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Babette's Feast (1987)

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”Mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another. Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risks he takes. We do know fear. But no. Our choice is of no importance. There comes a time when our eyes are opened and we come to realize that mercy is infinite. We need only await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions. And lo! Everything we have chosen has been granted to us. And everything we rejected has also been granted. Yes, we even get back what we rejected. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.”

~ General Loewenheim in “Babette’s Feast” by Isak Dinesen ~

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Stéphane Audran in Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987)

Cast: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson, Ghita Nørby (voice). Screenplay: Gabriel Axel, based on a story by Karen Blixen. Cinematography: Henning Kristiansen. Production design: Sven Wichmann. Film editing: Finn Henriksen. Music: Per Nørgaard.

Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast is a "mood movie," one that, like some pieces of music, is designed -- or perhaps better, destined -- to put you into a certain emotional state. In the case of Babette's Feast, it's a kind of sweet melancholy, a state so ephemeral that almost anything can sweep it away. This is not meant as a knock on Axel's film, the screenplay for which he adapted from a story by Karin Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen). After all, it won the Oscar for best foreign language film, beating out among other contenders Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants. It does what it does extraordinarily well, which is to tell a story, evoke a particular time and place, and present us with memorable characters. It centers on two sisters, Filippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martine (Birgitte Federspiel), who live in a small Danish village where they tend to the aging congregation of a small, austere sect which their father gathered together many years ago. A kindly man, he nevertheless dominated their lives to the extent that suitors were discouraged from marrying them. One of Filippa's suitors was an aging French operatic baritone, Achille Papin (Jean-Philippe Lafont), who was traveling through the village and happened to hear her singing in the church. Smitten with both her beauty and her voice, he offered to give her singing lessons, but when he proposed to take her to Paris and make her a diva, she took fright and turned him down. Some years later, during the unrest in Paris after the fall of the Second Empire in 1871, Papin sends to the sisters a young woman whose life has been threatened. Her name is Babette Hersant, his letter tells them, and she's an excellent cook who would be a fine housekeeper for them. Babette (Stéphane Audran) takes up residence with them and proves to be invaluable, bringing with her Parisian skills at seeking out the best food in the markets and bargaining for the best price. And then one day Babette receives word that an old lottery ticket has finally paid off to the tune of 10,000 francs. It is also the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the small congregation, and Babette proposes that she cook a dinner for the elderly, cranky, often fractious flock to celebrate. What the sisters don't know, but will soon learn, is that Babette had been one of the most celebrated chefs in Paris. The film climaxes in a triumphant union of the spiritual and the physical, as Babette's feast transforms the group into a true fellowship. Axel stages the feast beautifully, and cinematographer Henning Kristiansen emphasizes the transformation wrought by Babette's food with a steady focus on the faces of the congregants, which change from icy gray to rosy warmth as the meal progresses. There's a lovely little moment in which one of the sternest of the group reaches for a glass, discovers that it's filled with water, makes a face, and eagerly picks up a wine glass instead. As I've said, it's an ephemeral film, and I certainly don't think it deserved the Oscar over the more complex and powerful Au Revoir les Enfants, but on the other hand, what's so bad about feeling good?

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felt the need to make this post after reblogging the incredible dungeon meshi feast tht person enjoyed w their friends: my dad & I have this thing we do tht I'm trying to spread around my family & friends like soft butter on a piece of homemade bread 🍞 we call it Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast refers to this 1987 Danish film abt 2 sisters whose father was the founder & leader of a tiny church in a tiny seaside(?) village, it details the loves they missed out on as young women bc of their commitment to their father & their faith, then a French woman who was a successful cook/chef comes to them by the advice of one of these former almost loves, idk how to explain many of the things tht happen but one day the French woman- the titular Babette- essentially wins the lottery & decides to use every penny to cook for the sisters & their congregation a feast, it's a beautiful movie abt the power of food to bring us together & warm our hearts

So my dad & I decided on the concept of our own Babette's Feast, we cook a vaguely french structured "feast" w courses, then when dessert is served we sit together & watch the film (or some other film centered around food, when i did this w my sibling & their friends we watched The Menu) & just enjoy the company of friends & the taste of food

it's a rlly fun & meaningful way to show care for ur guests & sometimes the planning involves ppl bringing a dish for a certain course or for the host to prepare the courses themselves while guests simply bring a dessert, part of humanity is abt sharing (our burdens our food our joy) at the end of the day

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Babette's Feast (1987)

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