Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast

Overview

In this 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.

Cast

Lori Singer

Narrator

Peter Beard

Himself

Karen Blixen

Herself