Never has cinema presented such a chaste and tasty orgy. Director Gabriel Axel suggests something heterodox but logical: you can reach the soul through the palette. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2022

Babette's Feast makes us relax and feel good. We leave it happy.

| Apr 19, 2022

There's love and elegance, delicacy even, in the way Axel narrates this story about friendship and gratitude. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 31, 2020

A movie whose special quality lies in the play of irony beneath its somber surface.

| Feb 27, 2020

All is grace.

| May 31, 2019

It is so lovely.

| Original Score: A+ | May 15, 2019

Nourishing both the senses and the religious imagination with its profound representation of food and eating, the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film remains the gold standard for food films.

| Apr 30, 2019

It's a strangely moving film about talents and passions used and not used.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2018

essentially a fable ... stands the test of time

| Original Score: A | Aug 14, 2013

a simple film of great feeling and generosity

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2013

Babette's offering is a ritual sacrifice, intended to encourage the austere characters with the possibility that their material nourishment may provide spiritual sustenance as well.

| Original Score: 78/100 | Aug 9, 2013

While Babette's Feast is bleak, and often ponderous and stony, it eventually resolves as a moving hymn to art.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2013

It's a flawless adaptation of the story Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) wrote for a bet that she could be published in the popular middlebrow Saturday Evening Post.

| Dec 16, 2012

The film began something of a vogue for food as an emblem of love in the cinema, but nothing has equalled it. Resist it if you can.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 14, 2012

Light, frothy and sweet on the tongue, but lacking nutrition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Twenty-five years on, the story is still charming and beguiling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Melancholy bliss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Still good enough to eat.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2012

Audran is luminous as the centre of a gentle, generous film about grace. Oh, and grub.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2012

Undoubtedly the warmest of all Scandinavian films about religion.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 6, 2010