At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, Babettes’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.

(Gabriel Axel, Denmark, Swedish, French W/ Eng subs, 104min, 1987, Digital)