In The Catholic Table by Emily Stimpson Chapman, which I blogged about last week, the author lists a few films which, in her words, “sense the sacramentality of supper and its power to bring grace into people’s homes and lives.”
One of these, naturally enough, is Babette’s Feast. This wonderful film (which is, incidentally, on the Vatican’s list of recommended films) was inspired by a short story of Karen Blixen, the Danish author of Seven Gothic Tales. It bears all the hallmarks of Blixen’s eccentric, thought-provoking view of life: it is theatrical, ironic, insightful and otherworldly.
