Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel
Piera Palermo
Here we go again: the challenge of meeting my neighbor and my friend is back with the movie (a DVD to be precise) which requires a minimum of silence because while it is nice to have our children screaming, play and jump around while we cook, watch a movie is already a bit 'more complicated, so this time we needed help!
The occasion was soon apparent: it's the circus!
While I saw the blue and white tents be hoisted into the sky, my mind went to the movies! So thanks to the complicity of our husbands who willingly (and, for the record, with a few murmurs) agreed to lead our children to attend a matinee, we amicheandfriends we had two full hours to enjoy a film that time, and I stress this time compared to the previous, it was worth really worth.
Lunch Babette is a small masterpiece, and for those who have not seen it yet, that is really the rule not to reveal anything surprising how delicate this film, with its apparent simplicity reveals the greatness and the pride of art. Yes, specifically of the culinary art: the explosion of talent, the magnificence of the human capacity to create, to transform, the power of art to elevate the spirit. The conviviality of food, almost divine power of food to resolve complicated situations, through the alchemy of tastes, smells, all of the senses. The culinary art is art, because it is recognizable because it bears the signature even after decades.
The disruptive power of art, the talent that screams to come out and once satisfied, appeased: the scene where Babette sits and slowly savor a glass of wine is evocative of the creative effort that once revealed in all its magnificence is quiet, empty and flat met the artist of her child can rest.
And while we are happy and literally foaming at the mouth because we have so delighted our eyes but not our taste buds with turtle soup and cailles in sarcophagi, we continue to look stunned in the face, we begin to hear the din from the bottom of the scale goes: our children are still excited about the amazing circus attractions, ready to tell us once again wonders of the eyes and the palate!
Friend, the next time you eat!
(Babette's Feast, written and directed by Gabriel Axel based on the story of Karen Blixen, in DVD)
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