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Babette's Feast

Babettes gæstebud

1987

A mysterious French refugee working as housekeeper for two pious sisters in a remote Danish village spends her one windfall preparing a single, sumptuous banquet for their austere religious community. A luminous, Oscar-winning fable about grace and the pleasures of the table.

Why it’s here

Gabriel Axel’s Blixen adaptation is an enduring Danish classic of community, faith, and artistic generosity.