![]() ![]() However, their servant, Babette Hersant, a refugee from the French Civil War, asks to prepare a real French dinner for the celebration, and to pay for it herself from the ten thousand francs she has recently won in a lottery. Martine and Philippa now want to celebrate what would have been their long-deceased father's hundredth birthday at a simple supper for his remaining disciples. ![]() Although the minister has long been dead, a dwindling number of disciples continue to meet at his house to read and interpret the Word. ![]() The story is a simple one: In a village on the remote Jutland peninsula in late nineteenth-century Denmark, two maiden sisters, Martine and Philippa, preside over a small Lutheran pious sect that their father had founded as a young man. 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. 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. ![]()
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