Babette's Feast
Nordisk Film Distribution | Release Date: March 4, 1988 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
This is a pleasant but overgenerous and predictable film, so eager to embrace the good in people that it never fully succeeds as drama. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
On the whole, the adaptation is faithful but some of the qualities of Dinesen's language are lost in translation or through abridgment, and the politics have been needlessly simplified. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'Angelo
The story’s poignant theme—that love and art retain their beauty even if they can only be indulged once in a lifetime—registers more as an afterthought than as the soul-stirring revelation clearly intended. Read full review
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