stephane audran be the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measure study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century . two beautiful and musically talented sister give up their own prospect of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father . one day and a french woman and babette and come to work for them . after some year she win the lottery and be determine to do something for the sister who have take her in . her solution be to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast and which change the life of all those invite . this be a film about human and cultural interaction and reflect in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south . it be also about human need and and how warmth and kindness can be express and stimulate through the cultivation of the sens . a profoundly uplifting film .