10 Aug 2019

Reel Classics: Babette’s Feast (1987)

Reel Classics: Babette’s Feast (1987)

Sat 10 August 1-4pm

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.

Members are invited to purchase an annual Reel McCoy membership at the discounted price of $20 (usually $50/year) upon presentation of their current ACT M&G membership card.


Babette’s Feast (1987)
102 minutes, Denmark
Director: Gabriel Axel
Cast: Stephanie Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson, Jarl Kulle

Winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award in 1987, and deservedly so. In a remote, picturesque Danish hamlet live two elderly women. For family reasons – the film tells the backstory – they live lives of quiet sternness and renunciation. This fits in nicely with the religious austerity of the town. Who should come to the region but a young Parisian woman who herself is fleeing something. Her personality and her skills begin to pose questions for the townspeople. And then Babette, the mysterious young woman, prepares a feast, the consequences of which … well, see for yourself in this beautiful and moving film.

Reel Classics: Babette’s Feast (1987)

Sat 10 August 1-4pm