The Discovery of Meaning in Babette's Feast The film, however, is about a great deal more than the pleasures of eating. Today, viewers will probably have to prepare their own feasts, but the recipes are still readily available. The narrator Colleen Dewhurst was good.Babette's Feast (1987) is popularly regarded as a 'food movie.' After seeing the movie for the first time, viewers flocked to restaurants around the country to experience first-hand the delicious feast they had watched being devoured on screen. He had that much power, and he used it to kill. It is rare for people to be given that much power. The idea is that the lord gave the mother tremendous power to save a life.

The mother does it but dies within minutes of cutting the last stalk. The lord says if the mother can cut all the rye in a field in one day, then the boy will be set free. A boy is accused of burning a building and will be sent to jail or something. CAUTION SPOILER: Set in the 1800s or earlier when peasants worked the fields for a lord (local ruler or land owner) in Denmark. SORROW-ACRE: It was too depressing, but it was thought provoking. I did not see as many reactions and changes in people in the book as I did in the movie. She spent her entire lottery winnings on one creation. This was about the artist’s need to create.

The sisters did not know until after the meal that Babette was one of the great chefs of France. The sisters do not want to show that they enjoy food, but the meal is so great that it brings out things in people. When Babette wins the lottery, she uses all that money to create one meal for the sisters and their friends - expensive wines, a live turtle for soup, etc. She flees to Norway where she cooks and works for the sisters for no money, for many years.

CAUTION SPOILER: Two pious religious sisters have lived their lives helping others, eating simple food, denying themselves love and enjoyments in life.

I hoped the book would be better, but it was not. BABETTE’S FEAST I saw the movie many years ago and liked it. Two short stories - just over an hour each.īabette was not as good as the movie.

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