Gabriel Axel on BABETTE’S FEAST
Babette’s Feast • 8m 44s
Director Gabriel Axel began his career working for Danish television in the early 1950s. He struggled for fifteen years to bring to the screen Isak Dinesen’s short story “Babette’s Feast,” considered unfilmable. This interview was conducted at the Karen Blixen Museum in Rungsted, Denmark, in May 2013.
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Stéphane Audran on BABETTE'S FEAST
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Table Scraps
In this 2013 video 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. Actor Lori Singer narrates.
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Karen Blixen—Storyteller
In this feature-length documentary from 1995, director Christian Braad Thomsen weaves together a portrait of Danish author Karen Blixen—who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen—through interviews with her friends and students, and archival television appearances by the writer.
