{"id":107,"date":"2014-02-13T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:35:40","slug":"gabriel-axel-made-babettes-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Axel Made &#8220;Babette&#8217;s Feast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any discussion of the greatest movie about food includes <strong>Babette&#8217;s Feast<\/strong>, a Danish film starring the French woman Stephane Audran adapted and directed by Gabriel Axel based on a story by Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen).<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Axel died yesterday. He was 95.<\/p>\n<p>This trailer evokes just a soup\u00e7on\u00a0of the sly pleasure the movie, which won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1987, delivers.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/SvNifgj_dv4<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates for greatest movie about food? I like <strong>Tampopo, A Noodle Western<\/strong> a lot, but Stanley Tucci&#8217;s <strong>Big Night<\/strong> is a wonderful movie.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolaus Geyrhalter&#8217;s <strong>Our Daily Bread<\/strong> is a breathtaking documentary about harvesting and making food, as delightful and moving as a symphony.<\/p>\n<p>There are many other examples of movies about food, but two of note because they are withering social satires that also celebrate the well-made dish are Marco Ferreri&#8217;s <strong>Le Grande Bouffe<\/strong>, in which four friends decide to gorge themselves to death, and Peter Greenaway &#8216;s <strong>The Cook The Thief His Wife &amp; Her Lover<\/strong>, a dazzlingly transgressive romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any discussion of the greatest movie about food includes Babette&#8217;s Feast, a Danish film starring the French woman Stephane Audran adapted and directed by Gabriel Axel based on a story by Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen). Gabriel Axel died yesterday. He was 95. This trailer evokes just a soup\u00e7on\u00a0of the sly pleasure the movie, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gabriel Axel Made &#8220;Babette&#8217;s Feast&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}