Babette's Feast (1987)
Directed by Gabriel Axel
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
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What critics compared Babette's Feast to
"Chocolat," an appealing comic fable aimed at those with a bittersweet tooth, is a gourmet treat in the tradition of the more nutritious "Babette's Feast."
Variations on the theme have found their way into a broad assortment of popular films, from "The Sound of Music" and "The Piano" to the Oscar-winning "Antonia's Line" to such classics as "Like Water for Chocolate" and "Babette's Feast," in which the forbidden fruit of the flesh is given a gastronomical dimension.
(December 22, 2000) -- Babette's Feast taught filmgoers that a great meal is heavenly.
But these performances are simply not enough to deliver the movie to the level of "Like Water for Chocolate," "Babette's Feast" and other great movies about the magical connection between the gastronomic and the romantic or spiritual.
The film “Chef” heralds the glorious return to the big screen of food porn, a term once ascribed to “Babette’s Feast,” “Eat Drink Man Woman” and “Big Night” but now mostly relegated to the Cooking Channel.
It's a return to form deserving of a place alongside culinary classics such as Big Night and Babette's Feast.
It also belongs in the pantheon of great films about food – think “Tampopo,” “Babette’s Feast” and “Big Night.”
Foodies who feasted on “Big Night,” “Babette’s Feast” and “Eat Drink Man Woman” may flock to “ Chef ,” a lightweight but high-calorie confection in which the actors often run the risk of being upstaged by all manner of scrumptious-looking cuisine.
It's not a food-and-feelings film on the order of Babette's Feast or Big Night or other similar-yet-superior films, but it's an acceptable light snack of entertainment that, at the very least, comes out of the metaphorical kitchen homemade, heartfelt and nicely plated.
This movie will be on lists of “Great Food Films” forever, along with classics like “Big Night” and “Babette’s Feast.”
To call director Luca Guadagnino's ravishing daydream a coming-of-age film is akin to calling “Babette's Feast” a movie about serving food.
Not since “Babette’s Feast” has a movie cared so deeply about food.
With a clever chase sequence along the banks of the Seine River, with kitchen scenes as cinematic (and hunger-inducing) as anything in the live-action gastronomic hits Babette's Feast and Big Night, with a script that plays to both kids and adults without pandering to either, Ratatouille is simply grand.
Ratatouille is the delicacy you’ve been waiting for on par with expert cooking movies such as Like Water for Chocolate or Babette’s Feast .
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It’s not on par with “Babette’s Feast” or “Eat Drink Man Woman,” but it will make you lick your chops.
No movie about McDonald’s could ever qualify as “food porn,” and yet close-ups of actual beef patties sizzling on skillets are near-“Babette’s Feast”-level.