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Babette's Feast (1987)

★ 7.2 · 442 ratings on TMDB

Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast.

Babette's Feast poster★ 7.2

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

DirectorGabriel Axel
CastAsta Esper Hagen Andersen, Bibi Andersson, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer, Ghita Nørby, Hanne Stensgaard
GenresComedy, Drama, History
The emergence reading

Babette's Feast keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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