Food Films Worksheet

The Food Film Eat Drink Man Woman or Babette's Feast, answers the question below (1-8). What are your thoughts?

1.) What country is this film from?

2.) What do you know about that country from family, friends, school or popular culture?

3.) What images in this film reinforced your concepts of this country?

4.) What images were surprising about this country? What did you not expect?

5.) What cultural myths (notions a culture has about itself and others as told in stories) are evident in this film?

6.) What is the director's attitude towards food?

7.) How does food support the story, that is, and why is there so much emphasis on the meal(s).

8.) What cultural value do they add to the story?