Karen Blixen's Babettes gæstebud = Babette's Feast
(DVD)

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Axel, Gabriel, screenwriter,
Betzer, Just, film producer.
Hansen, Claes Kastholm, consultant.
Christensen, Bo, 1937-2020 film producer.
Audran, Stéphane, 1932-2018, actor.
Published
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013].
ISBN
9781604657418, 1604657413, 9781604659276, 1604659270
Status
On Shelf
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Bloomingdale Public Library - Adult AVACADEMY BAB (DANISH)On Shelf
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Geneva Public Library District - Available soonDVD FOREIGN FILM BABETTES (SET)On Order
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Christian life -- Denmark -- 19th century -- Drama.
Cooking, French -- Drama.
Denmark -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.
Dinesen, Isak, -- 1885-1962 -- Film adaptations.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Foreign language films.
Rungstedlund (Denmark) -- Drama.
Video recordings.

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Published
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Danish
ISBN
9781604657418, 1604657413, 9781604659276, 1604659270
UPC
715515107617, 715515132718

Notes

General Note
Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
General Note
Special features: Disc 1: Trailer. Disc 2: Gabriel Axel (new interview with the director); Stéphane Audran (new interview with the actor); Table scraps (visual essay by Michael Almereyda of book to film, narrated by Lori Singer); Karen Blixen - storyteller (a 1995 documentary about the author); An artist of the everyday (interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson). Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and Dinesen's 1950 story.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Henning Kristiansen ; production designer, Sven Wichmann ; composer, Per Nørgård ; editor, Finn Henriksen ; costume design, Annelise Hauberg.
Participants/Performers
Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson ; narrator, Ghita Nørby.
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
System Details
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital 2.0 Surround.
Language
Danish, French and Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Local note
DVD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Axel, G., Betzer, J., Hansen, C. K., Christensen, B., Audran, S., Kjer, B., Federspiel, B., Kulle, J., Lafont, J., Andersson, B., Nørby, G., Kristiansen, H., Wichmann, S., Nørgård, P., Henriksen, F., Hauberg, A., Blixen, K., Dinesen, I., Almereyda, M., Singer, L., Ferguson, P. P., & Le Fanu, M. (2013). Karen Blixen's Babettes gæstebud = Babette's Feast (Two-DVD special edition.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gabriel, Axel et al.. 2013. Karen Blixen's Babettes Gæstebud = Babette's Feast. [New York]: The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gabriel, Axel et al.. Karen Blixen's Babettes Gæstebud = Babette's Feast [New York]: The Criterion Collection, 2013.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Axel, G., Betzer, J., Hansen, C. K., Christensen, B., Audran, S., Kjer, B. and Federspiel, B. et al (2013). Karen blixen's babettes gæstebud = babette's feast. Two-DVD special edn. [New York]: The Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Axel, Gabriel,, et al. Karen Blixen's Babettes Gæstebud = Babette's Feast Two-DVD special edition., The Criterion Collection, 2013.

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