Ciclo "Fitas de animatógrafo"

Casa de Camilo started a new cinema program entitled «Animatographer Tapes in São Miguel de Seide», which runs during the last half of 2023 and will be led by Manuel Sobrinho Simões, António Roma-Torres, Júlio Machado Vaz and José Manuel de Oliveira.

The objective of the facilitating group is to provide reflection and informal debate around the plurality of readings, meanings and truths that cinema raises in the general public. Each session will feature the presence of prominent personalities from the most diverse aspects of Portuguese life and culture, who choose and comment on a film that they consider from a special perspective, either due to the richness of its synthesis of the paths of human existence, or due to its inherent aesthetic quality. .

Synopsis: On the desolate coast of Denmark live Martina and Philippa, the beautiful daughters of a devout clergyman who preaches salvation through self-abstinence. The two girls sacrifice the passion of their youth for faith and duty, and even many years after their father's death, they continue to keep his austere teachings alive among the people of that village. But with the arrival of Babette, a mysterious refugee from the Civil War in France, the lives of the sisters and the small village begin to change.

Soon, Babette convinces them to try something extraordinary - a French meal, a true "gourmet"! His party scandalizes the elderly local inhabitants. But, after all, who is this unknown and talented Babette, who terrifies these pious people with the prospect of losing their souls because they enjoy earthly pleasure so much?

Promotion: Álvaro Laborinho Lúcio (jurist and writer), with invited director Catarina Vasconcelos.

Duration: 99 minutes.