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Babette's Feast

6/8/2010, reviewed by Amanda Evans

This is a movie about a group of aging religious devotees in a small village on the coast of Denmark. They live simply, eating their food boiled and mushy. But when Babette, a French refugee sheltering among them for years, wins the lottery, she decides to spend it on ingredients to lay a real French feast before these humble people. As they see these exotic ingredients arrive, they are apprehensive, to say the least. But when they taste of her carefully prepared and exquisitely presented bounty, their palettes—and maybe even their lives—are changed forever. The setting of this movie is bleak and muddy, the characters are old and wrinkled, but the story that unfolds is beautiful and enriching.

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