A event held at The Cube on Sunday 29th December. The event starts at 16:30.
Cube Festive Gastroplex
Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud)
Dir: Gabriel Axel, 1987, Denmark, Danish with English subtitles, 103 mins, Cert: U
Sun 29 December // 16:30
Tickets: £5
Counting among its fans everyone from Pope Francis to Stanley Tucci, Babette's Feast is a delightful tale of purity and pleasure, featuring some of the most lipsmackingly delicious food porn ever committed to the screen.
Starring a roster of great Scandanavian character actors - some, such as Bibi Andersson and Jarl Kulle, familiar faces from the films of Ingmar Bergman - Babette's Feast is the equivalent of a warm hug on a cold Jutland morning. The first Danish film to win the Best Foreign Language Film, it has long charmed audiences with its gently comic depiction of a remote, puritanical community in 19th century Denmark learning to embrace pleasure with the help of the eponymous French gastronome. But like all the best feasts, the sweetness of the story is cut with more complex notes, as we learn of the regrets haunting the village's residents - and, in the incredibly moving climax, experience the power of food to heal.
When Babette, a beautiful and mysterious French refugee, arrives in a remote Danish town, the tight-knit, puritanical community begrudgingly let her in, providing her with shelter and work. But after the town patriarch passes away and Babette insists on preparing a feast in his honour, a magical world of sensory revelations is thrown open to the villagers...
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Doors open 30 minutes before advertised start time. All film screenings are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with no more than a 10 min selection of trailers.
The Cube is a membership venue, please remember to bring your card. You can join on the door for £1
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud)
Dir: Gabriel Axel, 1987, Denmark, Danish with English subtitles, 103 mins, Cert: U
Sun 29 December // 16:30
Tickets: £5
Counting among its fans everyone from Pope Francis to Stanley Tucci, Babette's Feast is a delightful tale of purity and pleasure, featuring some of the most lipsmackingly delicious food porn ever committed to the screen.
Starring a roster of great Scandanavian character actors - some, such as Bibi Andersson and Jarl Kulle, familiar faces from the films of Ingmar Bergman - Babette's Feast is the equivalent of a warm hug on a cold Jutland morning. The first Danish film to win the Best Foreign Language Film, it has long charmed audiences with its gently comic depiction of a remote, puritanical community in 19th century Denmark learning to embrace pleasure with the help of the eponymous French gastronome. But like all the best feasts, the sweetness of the story is cut with more complex notes, as we learn of the regrets haunting the village's residents - and, in the incredibly moving climax, experience the power of food to heal.
When Babette, a beautiful and mysterious French refugee, arrives in a remote Danish town, the tight-knit, puritanical community begrudgingly let her in, providing her with shelter and work. But after the town patriarch passes away and Babette insists on preparing a feast in his honour, a magical world of sensory revelations is thrown open to the villagers...
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Doors open 30 minutes before advertised start time. All film screenings are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with no more than a 10 min selection of trailers.
The Cube is a membership venue, please remember to bring your card. You can join on the door for £1
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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