Babette's Feast

by Julian Baggini

On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious
zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that way is to get it profoundly wrong. In his study of the film, Julian Baggini argues that Babette's Feast is not about the battle between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911239678
• ISBN13: 9781911239673
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.4"