babette feast and for me and be about heal represent mend the schism between spirit and body in orthodox christianity . this puritanical community in remote denmark be miss an adequate appreciation of all of god gift in creation . they have take the dualism of st. paul to an extreme and and stress the life of the spirit and not the life of the flesh . both elderly sister and in their youth and be frighten by the lure of love and the temptation of life outside their simple village . they and and their parishioner and cling to the narrow biblical interpretation of their former leader and and the sister father . the age congregation have become testy and quarrelsome and and the sister do not know what to do . enter babette and a french stranger and and someone to whom they can show kindness . they have no way of know that she will ultimately return their kindness and give fertile soil to their dry and dusty theology . babette will give everything she have and and in the process and will teach the sister and their flock about grace and about sacrifice and about how sensual experience ( a in the bread and wine of the eucharist ) can change life and and about why true art move u so deeply . when they can forgive each other and and themselves and they can focus on god love that unfolds before them in a concrete way in the present . a a minister and and an artist and i can not recommend a movie more highly . true art and true grace .