Delicious. There are very few movies, which are deserve this title. There are classics, cults, Academy Award Winners but delicious movies are very few. "Babette's Feast" is one of them. The watching of this film is not just simply watching, it's a massage for your eyes (Henning Christiansen's pictures of the wild Danish landscapes are exceptionally beautiful) and a feast of your soul. When Babette starts to cook the dinner, she becomes an angel and brightens (there is a reason for this brightening, but watch this movie, I won't tell you the point). And when the movie friends watch this film, they feed their eyes and soul and after the film they become wiser, like Babette. The interior of Babette's kitchen is so intimate and wonderfully photographed, that I wish, that I could have been there during the cooking. And the foods! The food called "bird in the sarcofage" is the most extraordinary food that ever been made and there are parallels between Babette's life and these birds. She buries and mourns these small and breakable creatures, like she has mourned her children. It seems morbid, but believe me, it's poetic. Babette is not suitable for that conservative community, where she lives in. But she fights for her freedom and happiness, which she left behind in France. Her dinner is the proclamation of her freedom. And this film is the proclamation of the European Movie, which survives every difficulties, like Babette. As you see this film is not just the simple story of a dinner, it's more. Think about it, after you finished watching the movie. Don't refuse it like the villagers try to refuse the dinner and they proclaim that they would not taste it, just eat it. Don't refuse this movie. Once André Bazin said: "... the film is like the ushrette's little lamp, which light, like a meteor, orbits around the screen, where is no space and limit, and passes over the night of our wakened dreamt dreams." (it's not a literary translation). This masterpiece is like this.
Review of Babette's Feast
