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Babette's feast is the story of a small town in Denmark in the 1800s that gets rocked by a French meal. Two religious sisters plan to celebrate what would have been their minister father's 100th birthday, and the local townspeople are invited to join them. They have a French refugee who is their servant, named Babette. Babette wins a lottery from France and decides to use the money to put together a full French dinner for the sisters' celebration. The townspeople are afraid of her French concoctions when they see the ingredients arriving by boat, but determine to go through with the meal. The dinner also brings up several memories of the sisters' pasts (of which a few episodic flashbacks are shown earlier in the film) and forces them to think about the decisions they made that affected their futures.

The movie is very simple in style, which is certainly appropriate in proportion to the town where the people live, which is a tiny seaside village of mostly older inhabitants. They all live in rougher housing and aren't used to extravagances. This makes Babbette's dinner all the more surreal for them, especially when they have a beautiful table setting, a wine for each dinner course, and plenty of foods even I've never been exposed to.

As the dinner progresses, the moods and outlooks of the guests are all very changed. The wine helps them relax, and in such a fine social setting, they are able to forgive their difference and overcome prejudices.

It's not anything groundbreaking, but the setting, the sisters' stories, and the spectacle of the meal are all so interesting that I couldn't help but enjoy myself.