Voilà Babette! Standing at the water's edge in Jutland like Jarman did at Dungeness. The night before, Babette honoured the two sisters who took her in 14 years earlier by preparing a feast for twelve of their deceased father's brethren.
An unusual film, Babette's Feast forsakes English-language tension for mood modulation, something Scandinavians know well. I can see why this film was so talked about back in the late-1980s, a time when people were only just getting into what in the 1990s and 2000s was an almost pornographic addiction to fine dining.
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