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Babette's Feast (1988)
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Some movies can only be described as delicious. In Babette's Feast, a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real French dinner--which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. Joining them for the meal will be a Danish general who, as a young soldier, courted one of the sisters, but she turned him away because of her religion. The village elders all resolve not to enjoy the meal, but can their moral fiber resist the ...
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Babette's Feast Movie Review by AJ  (6/13/2006) |
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Okay, so here's the basic gist of Babette's Feast: A small community of uptight Danish religious folk condemn a French woman for her magnificent French feast before being transformed spiritually and emotionally from their ignorant ways by the food. Okay, see, that's a concept I can dig. I very much enjoy movies that deal...
(complete Babette's Feast review by AJ)
I just watched this film this morning and I found it to be a great
showing of the richness of faith. Babette gave them another way to look
at life; not a replacement, but an enhancement. She shared all that she
had with those who gave what little they had to her. I see the story of
God in here. He sent his only son to man....
(complete Babette's Feast review by Movie Addict)
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