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Director: Gabriel Axel
Genres: Period Film, Family Drama, Drama
Box Office: / $4,398,938
Released Date: March 04, 1988 (USA)
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Summary:
The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel), the elderly daughters of the town's long-dead minister, take ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Stéphane Audran - (Babette Hersant)
Jean-Philippe Lafont - (Achille Papin)
Gudmar Wivesson - (Lorenz Lowenhielm as a Young Man)
Jarl Kulle - (Lorenz Lowenhielm as an old man)
Bibi Andersson - (Swedish Court Lady-in-waiting)
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Review:
The sophisticated and subtle screenplay for Babette's Feast, adapted by director Gabriel_Axel, is based on a story written by Isak Dinesen, the writer memorably played by Meryl_Streep in the biopic Out of Africa. In the film's first half, the emotional detachment of the pious characters is mirrored in the directorial approach, which ... Continue >>

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