Babette's Feast (Criterion Collection)

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	Stéphane Audran	Babette Hersant
	Bodil Kjer	Filippa
	Birgitte Federspiel	Martine
	Jarl Kulle	General Lorens Löwenhielm
	Jean-Philippe Lafont	Achille Papin
	Bibi Andersson	Swedish Lady-in-Waiting
	Ghita Nørby	Narrator
	Asta Esper Hagen Andersen	Anna
	Thomas Antoni	Swedish Lieutenant
	Gert Bastian	Poor Man
	Viggo Bentzon	Fisherman in Rowboat
	Vibeke Hastrup	Young Martine
	Therese Højgaard Christensen	Martha - Father's Maid
	Pouel Kern	Pastor
	Cay Kristiansen	Poul
	Lars Lohmann	Fisherman
	Tine Miehe-Renard	Löwenhielm's Wife
	Lisbeth Movin	Widow
	Finn Nielsen	Larsen - Grocer
	Holger Perfort	Karlsen
	Else Petersen	Solveig
	Erik Petersén	Erik - Serving Boy
	Ebbe Rode	Christopher
	Bendt Rothe	Old Nielsen
	Preben Lerdorff Rye	Captain

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Director	Gabriel Axel
Writer	Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel
Producer	Karen Bentzon, Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, Benni Korzen, Thomas Lydholm, Pernille Siesbye, Sonja Vesterholt, Marianne Vollmer
Musician	Per Nørgaard
Photography	Henning Kristiansen

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Christmas 2022 gift from Beth.

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 deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly 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. Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New interviews with director Gabriel Axel and actor Stéphane Audran
Karen Blixen—Storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author of the film’s source story, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen
New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
New interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson about the significance of cuisine in French culture
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and, for the Blu-ray edition, Dinesen’s 1950 story

New cover by Sarah Habibi

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