it have start quietly . if your be look for an action pack movie this be absolutely not the right choice . all character be slowly depict on the scene . stroke after stroke on the scene canvas . none can take away his hand to the priest and so the sister lifespan devotion can only remain into the village . philippa and martina know their destiny and belong only to the village . so when you understand that and you be on the movie scene and in the village that become the whole known world in that time . when and no technology can let you imagine anything else than the campaign and the village and the sea . you feel the rhythm of that ancient village life . watch the movie in a cold snowy late afternoon can cause you to approach this evening dinner with some sumptuous expectation . the final sentence that give a title to babette sacrifice far from paris represent an artist be never poor . superb photography . many situation depict portrait and landscape a they be style on canvas there and in jutland and in 18th century .