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Spiritual Journey
Babette's Feast is a glowing spiritual journey as expressed through food and gratitude.

Bursting with religious symbolism and metaphor
"Babette's Feast" is one of my favorite films. I haven't read all the reviews that have been posted so I don't know if anyone has mentioned it already, but this film is bursting with Christian symbolism and metaphor, particularly of the Eucharist.

I am not referring to the pious sisters and their fellow congregants; I am referring to the arrival, service, and sacrifice of Babette, who can be seen as a Christ-figure. She comes as an exile to a lowly place and spends her life in uncomplaining service to the two sisters. Then she sacrifices everything she has to create a feast which transforms its (undeserving) partakers into people able to leave pettiness behind and "have life more abundantly." And she begrudges none of it.

I am not especially religious, but these things always come to mind when I watch this film. It is a pure delight, with a transforming message.

Moviefan
I agree that "Feast" is subtle, sensitive and profound and the centerpiece of the film, both visually and thematically,the fact is the movie is slow and sometimes sleepy, nevertheless this movie is rich in two ways; the first one is related about the lonelyness of this two sisters and the big sacrifice they made to live with their father leaving their chances of living aside.
The other one is related to losses and regreats, and this fact is related to Babete's personal drama (she losses everything) and how she understands the only thing she got then is the two sisters of this lonely and remote place, giving them this fest who represents her gift of life to these ladies, the movie touches humen sense and regreat.

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