BABETTE'S FEAST (1988)

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Cast

STEPHANE AUDRAN BIRGITTE FEDERSPIEL BODIL KJER BIBI ANDERSSON JARL KULLE JEAN-PHILIPE LAFONT EBBE RODE

Plot

Babette is a refugee from Paris who flees to a small ultrapuritan Danish community to work as a cook. Their only diet is one of ale-bread and fish soup, so when she offers to prepare a feast they are determined not to enjoy it. Oscar winning film whose style changes to fit the mood of the plot.