Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast

Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast

2013
⏱️ 26 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Documentary
In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along the way into art history, philosophy, and the author’s life in Africa.

Cast

Lori Singer
Lori Singer
Narrator
Peter Beard
Peter Beard
Himself
Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen
Herself

Crew

Director
Michael Almereyda
Writer
Michael Almereyda
Producer
Issa Clubb, Peter Becker, Kim Hendrickson

Production

The Criterion Collection