Gabriel Axel's 'Babette's Feast' (1987)

In this episode, I talk about Gabriel Axel's 1987 film, "Babette's Feast." The film follows Martine and Filippa—two sisters devoted to a small religious community in Denmark—and Babette, a French refugee and former chef who comes to live with them. When Babette prepares a feast to honor the centenary of their father’s birth, the meal becomes an act of artistic and emotional offering.

I talk about what it means to offer something from the heart, how the film portrays art as a form of generosity, and how the experience of the meal brings the community back to life and to each other.

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My Sources:

• Babette's Feast: "Mercy and Truth Have Met Together" by Mark Le Fanu
• Babette's Feast: A Fable for Culinary France by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson