Babettes gæstebud (1987)'s comments

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dajmasta94

Delightful, poignant, and humble in it's achievements. This film is beautiful. Enough said.

5 years 10 months ago

Cmeola

So unbelievably underrated, absolutely incredible filmmaking in every way- I cannot talk highly enough of this film. An essential watch for any artist ever.

7 years 5 months ago

Whoever thinks Babette's Feast doesn't deserve to be considered part of the music genre did not see the same movie I saw. Music is more integral to the film than even food--it is a key component in the film's beauty and richness. It truly is a feast for the ears.

9 years 11 months ago

OldBoyFTW

Great film. What an amazing ending. I never expected what happened during the super to happen, it took me by surprise, but what a great surprise.

11 years 9 months ago

telbis

an artist is never poor

6 years 7 months ago

daisyaday

Food is love. ;)

11 years 10 months ago

ClassicLady

This movie is spiritually and visually soul satisfying. The feast so lovingly created by Babbett is passionately savored by the guests in such a way that the soul is raised up while the body is enriched. Only someone who is blessed with angelic qualities and artistic traits could perform such a feat. Wonderful movie!

10 years 2 months ago

Siskoid

Babette's Feast starts in medias res, going back decades, proceeding forward, and finally rejoining the relative present before getting to the eponymous feast, because it is meant to be part of the epic tradition. It's a food epic, perhaps not as fantastical as Like Water for Chocolate, but nevertheless using food as an engine for storytelling, confrontation, revolution, closure, revelation, art, romance, holiness, and charity. Babette is a French cook come to live in a Danish village, working for two Puritan sisters who regularly feed the elderly and the poor in their community, catering to the soul more than to the body. How Babette came to be there is the stuff of comic opera. What she does to change their lives is no less comic, but is the stuff of epics. Homer listed ships. Babette sends out course after course, amazing dishes the Puritans cannot overtly enjoy. The dinner speaks to the communal power of food, its meaning in human culture, and serves as experiential metaphor for spiritual replenishment. In Babette, we see the other side, the act of cooking for others its own reward. A small, subtle film, but it feels big and very filling.

5 years ago

jakeindiana93

An absolute masterpiece, truly a 10/10 in my book. What a powerful meditation on the divine act of creation.

2 years 11 months ago

tommy_leazaq

Had "Food" be a genre, this would be one of the top films of it.

7 years 11 months ago

George Bailey

What smith1979 said. This film is pure awesomeness! I originally gave it an 8 but it has been on my mind since I saw it so I changed it to a 9 :)

12 years 8 months ago

Phil2000

Silent Warrior - the singing lessons

13 years 2 months ago

Nuked

Phil2000, those brief singing lessons do not warrant Babette's Feast to be put in the genre of music.
IMDb has recently begun a serious classification of each film, and I feel confident that the music genre will be removed from Babette's Feast in the near future.

13 years ago