Thank you for not being overwhelmed by the dreary opening and poor subtitles, or you'll miss out on a masterpiece.
This is a film about faith, sacrifice, forbearance, and gratitude. The narrative is smooth and well-structured, and all the foreshadowing is completed in the final feast of the film.
The small town sisters each had a love that never ended. After the pastor's father ascended to heaven, he planned to spend the rest of his life peacefully with his father's former believers. The pastor's father's death anniversary is approaching. In order to repay the grace of the two sisters for taking in them for 14 years, Babette plans to use the lottery prize of 10,000 francs (which is considered to be equivalent to 200,000 euros today) to hold a feast for the neighbors.
The film began to accelerate from the arrival of the ingredients, the sisters became uneasy, and the audience gradually became excited. In this legendary feast recorded in film history, Babette, like the queen of the kitchen, calmly controls the production and rhythm, chooses the timing and cup type of pouring wine precisely, and even doesn't forget to take proper care of the coachman and the young chef. In a small town by the seaside in Denmark in the 19th century, she showed her lifelong understanding of ingredients and wine knowledge, intoxicating the well-informed general and letting every guest taste the good.
After the meal, the residents of the town sang with their hands under the stars. Babette chose not to go anywhere, saying to the astonished sisters: Artists are never poor.
PS: The several wines that appear in the film are:
Amontillado Xérès Amontillado
Champagne Veuve Clicquot 1860
Clos-Vougeot 1846
Aged Champagne Brandy Vieux Marc Fine Champagne
Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards
It was promoted by Cai Lan as the number one food movie in the world.
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