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 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 starkl...
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| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | Danish French Swedish English |
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
2013.
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| Series: | Criterion collection.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from web page. 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. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital 2.0 Surround. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: G; for mild frightening scenes, violence, usage of alcohol and smoking. |
