.@adriengoetz sera à la belle librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, rue Rambuteau, mardi 1er septembre à partir de 18h pour son dernier livre « Les Trois Hortense » @EditionsGrasset
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Pope Francis considered "Babette's Feast" (1987) to be "One of the best movies he had ever seen" & it was one of his top 3 movies of all time. About the film, he said,
"The story takes place in a very strict Calvinist community in Denmark. The protagonists, two sisters, daughters of a Protestant pastor, had each fallen in love but rejected this feeling because it was wrongly considered contrary to the very strict morals they had inherited. They lived a life of renunciation, not only in love but in everything, including food and clothing. A kind of continuous self-flagellation.
The French cook Babette, a âforeignerâ in this context, after winning a rich lottery prize, decides to cook a sublime meal for the whole community, and by this gesture she manages to make everyone feel and see human beauty. She manages to make them perceive this divine pleasure that has been wrongly suppressed for too long.
Choosing oneâs own food is one of those choices. It is a powerful mechanism for change: it means rewarding one productive and economic model rather than another."
P.S: On this day, 39 years ago, Gabriel Axel's "Babette's Feast" (1987) was released in Denmark.