Babette's Feast
Story by Isak Dinesen; Film by Gabriel Axel
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Babette's Feast was first published in the Ladies Home Journal, and later it appeared in Isak Dinesen's Anecdotes of Destiny, published in 1958. The movie, directed by Gabriel Axel, received the Academy Award in 1986 for Best Foreign Film.
Babette's Feast is a story about pietism and the sensuality of food. In this story Isak Dinesen demonstrates her finest comic talent.
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