None means everything

Dahlia 2022-03-21 09:02:49

"Babette's Banquet", an award-winning film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987, tells the life and choices of a pair of Puritan sisters on a small island in Denmark. With the passing of the priest's father, the influence of faith on the island is increasingly unimaginable. continue. In the end, Babette, who escaped from France and was taken in by the two sisters, volunteered to prepare the priest's birthday dinner, a real French feast. After she worked so hard to buy quail, poultry, green turtles, all kinds of alcohol and other ingredients from France that were contrary to the beliefs of the islanders, the two sisters were so anxious that they had nightmares at night, and secretly communicated with other believers and begged to be on the dining table. Be more inclusive. After the banquet, facing the exquisite table, paying attention to etiquette, the delicious food served one after another (Amontillado sherry with turtle soup, Demidov crepes with 1860 Veuve Clicquot champagne, 1845 Veuve Garden wine Paired with truffle foie gras with grilled quail, salad, dessert, fruit), the congregants recalled the unforgettable time in the pastor's life, and those who were grumpy also opened their hearts. A French feast made 12 people spend an unforgettable night. After the banquet, everyone was satisfied and grateful. Tiantian's delicacies from mountains and seas do not feel the taste. It is precisely because the believers have always advocated restraint and boiled bread with dried fish and beer every day to appreciate the deliciousness of the French feast and the spiritual enjoyment it brings. "No, means everything." The 12-person dinner spent all 10,000 francs in Babette's lottery (that's all her belongings), but she was extremely rich in her heart, and proudly comforted her sisters that "artists will never be poor..."

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  • Arne 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    A movie that is more interesting than imagined. The details of life are a magical force that connects human spirit and flesh, such as the sweetness of wine in a meal. If you can't perceive such sweetness, then the dullness of perception in life is also It must have been with it...

  • Jaquan 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a concise and timeless movie, and I remembered a sentence I read in a certain article, “You are a Sibelius concerto. The surface is calm, but the undercurrent is surging, and there is a hint of romance.” Probably. The highest state of art is to reach the realm of transformation and stop at the perfection. After watching it, I think of the exquisite frescoes painted by the Jin Dynasty painter Wang Kui for ten years for the remote Yanshan Temple on the outskirts of Wutai Mountain, which should also be the story of Barbet and the two old ladies.

Babette's Feast quotes

  • Young Lt. Lorens Löwenhielm: I am going away forever - and I shall never, never see you again. For I have learned here that life is hard and cruel and that in this world there are things that are - impossible.

  • Swedish Lieutenant: Lorens, how can a lieutenant of the Hussars let himself be defeated and disarmed by...

    Young Lt. Lorens Löwenhielm: By some long-faced sectarians who can't even afford salt for their soup? I can't forget the image of that lovely maiden.

    Swedish Lieutenant: You're a dreamer, Lorens.

    Young Lt. Lorens Löwenhielm: But I'd prefer to be like you. I will forget all that happened on the west coast. From now I shall look forward, not backward. I will think of nothing buy my career and someday I will cut a brilliant figure in the great, wide world.