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Title: Not for me, and I'm a patient viewer
Review: I don't mind slow-moving movies, or quiet, static stories (I was enthralled throughout by MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, for instance), but Babette's Feast did not stir me. I know that good acting may consist only of a silent glance, a raised eyebrow, a frozen gesture; but for me even these were lacking. Perhaps the author and director intended only for us to watch the isolated, inward, emotionally repressed community, and to reflect on its warning; but the movie did not imply or hint this. I'm sorry that I did not draw more from it.
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