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A |
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A+ |
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A+ |
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She won the lottery and throws a party.
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Oct 16, 2006
This is a wonderful movie. You see how the people of the village were kept together by the Pastor, but after his death, their freindships failed and their relationships strained. His two spinster daughter try to keep things going. When WWII breaks out, they taken in a French woman who wants to escape the threat of the Nazi's as a favor.
Babette hides out in this small coastal village and is an outsider. In exchange for room and board, she'll cook for the sisters. Not finding friends or comfort, she turns to what she knows best, cooking. With the meager money she gets from the sisters, she flavors their meals wonderfully, as well as their lives. Babette sends a tiny bit of money regularly to France to enter the Lottery, and against the odds, wins.
Realizing how the community has colored and flavored her life, she wants to repay them by throwing a banquet. Sending for all of the finest ingredients and tappings with wines for every course, she feeds the group. Amazingly they think she is the devil and is trying to poison them with evil, so if they can eat the food and not comment on it, they won't be subject to the evil. They adore the food, and not being able to comment on it, they talk about their own lives and bond as a community again. The frail old ladies sipping wine and licking their lips is just delightful. You can see the joy in their eyes, but the angst of knowing it is "evil". A quite, clever and enjoyable movie. So hard to explain how simple a story, but depth of feeling, acting and emotions. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. |
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