What struck Oliver Saucy most about Babette’s Feast — the Danish movie that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1987 — wasn’t the conflicting values of its characters or the ...

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Many years later - their father is now deceased - they take in French refugee, Babette Hersant, who agrees to work as their servant. After winning the lottery, Babette wants to repay the sisters ...