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Karen Blixen's Babettes gæstebud = Babette's Feast /

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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 s...

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Uniform Title:Babettes gæstebud (Motion picture)
Other Authors: Axel, Gabriel (Screenwriter), Audran, Stéphane, 1932-2018 (Actor), Kjer, Bodil, 1917-2003 (Actor), Federspiel, Birgitte (Actor), Kulle, Jarl, 1927-1997 (Actor), Lafont, Jean-Philippe (Actor), Andersson, Bibi, 1935-2019 (Actor), Nørby, Ghita (Narrator), Kristiansen, Henning (director of photography.), Nørgård, Per, 1932- (composer (expression)), Hauberg, Annelise, 1946- (Costume designer), Blixen, Karen, 1885-1962, Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962, Singer, Lori, 1957- (Narrator)
Format: Video DVD
Language:Danish
French
Swedish
Language Notes:Danish, French and Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Edition:Two-DVD special ed.
Series:Criterion collection ; 665.
Subjects:
Rungstedlund (Denmark) > Drama.
Christian life > Denmark > 19th century > Drama.
Cooking, French > Drama.
Denmark > Social life and customs > 19th century > Drama.
Dinesen, Isak, > 1885-1962.
Rungstedlund (Denmark)
Christian life.
Cooking, French.
Manners and customs.
Denmark.
1800 - 1899
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Danish.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Drama.
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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.
Item Description:Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features: Disc 1: Trailer. Disc 2: Gabriel Axel (new interview with the director); Stéphane Audran (new interview with the actor); Table scraps (visual essay by Michael Almereyda of book to film, narrated by Lori Singer); Karen Blixen - storyteller (a 1995 documentary about the author); An artist of the everyday (interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson). Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and Dinesen's 1950 story.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Format:DVD video, 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.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Henning Kristiansen ; production designer, Sven Wichmann ; composer, Per Nørgård ; editor, Finn Henriksen ; costume design, Annelise Hauberg.
ISBN:9781604657418
1604657413
9781604659276
1604659270