Friday Film

By request, Friday Films will present Babette’s Feast on Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in Canterbury Hall. From an online review – “The 1987 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is an austere but ultimately joyous fable set on a desolate spit of coastline in northern Denmark, where for sustenance the puritan townsfolk rely first on prayer and afterwards on their daily ration of a thin, brown gruel made from soggy bread crusts and dehydrated flounder. But all that changes with the arrival from Paris of an attractive refugee (the story takes place during the French Revolution) who thanks her benefactors, and tests their strict religious principles, by preparing a sinfully delicious gourmet feast for the entire town.” From Sandy Schwartz: “Good on the small screen, luscious on the large one.”