Films Directed by Gabriel Axel (Study Guide) - Babette's Feast, Hagbard and Signe, the Girls Are Willing, Crazy Paradise, Amour (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Babette's Feast, Hagbard and Signe, the Girls Are Willing, Crazy Paradise, Amour, Paradise and Back, Going for Broke, Helle for Helene, Det Kaere Legetoj, Three Girls in Paris, Vi Har Det Jo Dejligt, Oskar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Babette's Feast (Danish: ) is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Gabriel Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), who also wrote the story which inspired the 1985 Academy Award winning film Out of Africa. Produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Benni Korzen with funding from the Danish Film Institute, Babette's Feast was the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story. It was also the first Danish film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Babette's Feast begins with a portrait of two elderly and pious Christian sisters. The sisters, Martine (named for Martin Luther) and Philippa (named for Luther's friend and biographer Philip Melanchthon), live in a small village on the remote and beautiful, but also barren and chilly, western coast of Jutland in the 19th century (1871). Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) are the daughters of a pastor who founded his own strict Christian sect. Though the pastor himself has long since died, and the sect draws no new converts, the aging sisters preside lovingly over their dwindling brood of white-haired, rural resident believers. The story falls back in time to depict how each sister, in her youth, was a ravishing beauty. Each is courted by an impassioned suitor visiting Jutland Martine by a charming but dissolute young officer (Lorens) of the Swedish ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=97982