Babette's Feast (1987)
Gabriel Axel's Danish film - and 1987's Oscar winner for Best
Foreign Film - is an Isak Dinesen tale about a French servant
(beautifully, stoically played by Stephane Audran) in a strict
Lutheran household in Denmark.
To repay her hard, deprived hosts for their kindness, she
spends her entire lottery winnings doing the one thing she knows
how to do best - she cooks an elaborate, exotic, eponymous meal
filled with game and liquors and desserts they've never
experienced before.
The meticulous preparation, serving, and devouring of this
feast changes the lives of everyone involved, enhancing the true
meaning of friendship.
Impeccably acted, and suffused with charm and delicacy, this is
one film that's a meal in itself.
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