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Title:
Babette's feast [DVD video] = Babettes gæstebud
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Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
ISBN:
9781604659276
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Publication information may vary; may lack special features disk.
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.
Performers:
Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson ; narrator, Ghita Nørby.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround.
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Language:
Danish
Additional Language:
Danish, French and Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Audience:
MPAA rating: G; for mild frightening scenes, violence, usage of alcohol and smoking.
