Babettes Feast

[bridgetn]

Here you have some links to a Danish "food movie": "Babettes feast / Babettes Gaestebud".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babette's_Feast

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbQ6ktcFPQ


It is links in English.
The instructor was Gabriel Axel.

The movie is about Babette, a formidable "Chef de Cuisine" from France who comes to Denmark and fall in love with a Swedish officer. Then she would like to show the Danes how she can made food ...

The movie is based on a book by the famous Danish author Karen Blixen. A really classic story.
The movie was very populare in Denmark and it received an "Oskar" in Hollywood 1988.

I have never seen the movie but have read articles about it.


Bridget

[Debbie]

Hi Bridget. I watched two clips from the movie. Now I wish I could see the whole thing. May have to check around for that one. I loved the way the dinner guests would talk about religion rather than comment on how delicious the food they are eating was. Especially the little old woman who's eyes would nearly pop and she would fight to hold back a grin while sipping the wine. She finally gives in and gives her lips a good lick. Ha. Thanks for sharing.

Deb

[bridgetn]

Apr 14, 2009 12:03:33 GMT -6 Debbie said:

Hi Bridget. I watched two clips from the movie. Now I wish I could see the whole thing. May have to check around for that one. I loved the way the dinner guests would talk about religion rather than comment on how delicious the food they are eating was. Especially the little old woman who's eyes would nearly pop and she would fight to hold back a grin while sipping the wine. She finally gives in and gives her lips a good lick. Ha. Thanks for sharing.

Deb

Hi Debbie:
Glad you like the movie clips of "Babettes Feast".
Just like to tell a little about the author to the book, the movie was based on.
The author was Baroness Karen Von Blixen, 1885-1962. She also wrote under the synonymous Isak Dinesen, Osceola, Pierre Andrezel. In the time where she lived it was much more easy to be a populare author if you was a man, because of that she used names of men as synonymous.
The most welknown books she wrote were:
"Seven Gotic Tales" and "Out of Africa".
She lived several years in Kenya, Africa where she had a coffee farm, but when she got old she returned to Rungstedlund manor house, North Sjaelland, Denmark, where she was born.
Today her home is a big museum.

Bridget