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Stunning Film Feast
by Ron Reh (movies profile)
Dec 18, 2006
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2 people found this review helpful
"Babett's Feast" follows Izak Dinesen short story very closely, including some of the dialogue. Dinesen sets her story in Norway, the film places its action in Denmark. The film is an artistic masterpiece, a characterization which may be made by many great films. First its plot is simple, pure, in its outlines. Several of the characters are fully drawn, several memorable. It is a film about the destinies principally of three women and two men, and while we may think we focus mostly on Babette, she is not the protagonist of the story so much as are the sisters, and perhaps nearly as much, the young man who becomes a general, an intimate to the queen. The gentleness, the honesty, the acting are all so intense, it belies the reality of reality television; it comes just that close to being a documentary, finely edited for its story, or perhaps as viewing intimate life as one views life through a peeping Tom's windows, but instead of sex or naked bodies, we see into the souls of persons, into the soul of life. This is a very religious film without religiosity, a probing film without being anatomical, a film of recurring themes of irony, especially the feast itself. It is a kind film and teaches us much of kindnes. Beautiful, uplifting film. 040917 |
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