Counting among its fans everyone from Pope Francis to Stanley Tucci, Babette's Feast is a delightful tale of purity and pleasure, featuring some of the most lipsmackingly delicious food porn ever committed to the screen. 

Featuring a roster of great Scandanavian character actors - some, such as Bibi Andersson and Jarl Kulle, familiar faces from the films of Ingmar Bergman - Babette's Feast is the equivalent of a warm hug on a cold Jutland morning. The first Danish film to win the Best Foreign Language Film, the film has long charmed audiences with its gently comic depiction of a remote, puritanical community in 19th century Denmark learning to embrace pleasure with the help of the eponymous French gastronome. But like all the best feasts, the sweetness of the story is undercurrent with more complex notes, as we learn of the regrets haunting the village's residents - and, in the incredibly moving climax, experience the power of food to heal.

When Babette, a beautiful and mysterious French refugee, arrives in a remote Danish town, the tight-knit, puritanical community begrudgingly let her in, providing her with shelter and work. But after the town patriarch passes away and Babette insists on preparing a feast in his honour, a magical world of sensory revelations is thrown open to the villagers...