Le festin de Babette
Let's enjoy this Easter season, with its many culinary traditions, to explore a tempting style of cinema: films that honor victuals, those who prepare them and those who devour them. Gourmet and luscious - in restaurants or in private, food is a jubilant playground for cinema. Unifying, outrageous, virtuoso or explosive, the scenes of meals and food offer the perfect frame to parody or shake up human relations.
Many guests come to the party with a wonderfully set table. They stare at appetizing-looking dishes with delight. But they are in for an unpleasant surprise.
Babette's Feast is a film about a French refugee who offers a lavish feast to a Danish village, transforming the guests and revealing her past as a renowned chef in Paris.
Gabriel Axel
Gabriel Axel, with some 16 feature films to his credits, he returned to France in 1977, where he directed several large projects for French television, culminating in 1985 with a historical five-episode series, Heaven's Pillars. In 1987, Axel returned to Denmark to direct what had been his dream project for over 15 years, and is considered his masterpiece, an adaptation of Karen Blixen's Babette's Feast. After screening at the Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards among others. His next films, the youth drama Christian, the historical drama Prince of Jutland.
