Highest rated movie: Babette's Feast (1987)
Lowest rated movie: Lumière & Company (1995)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Gabriel Axel? Cinafilm has a total of 432 reviews across 2 movies directed by Gabriel Axel.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 74%.
Babette's Feast is Gabriel Axel's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 400 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gabriel Axel is Lumière & Company, with a score of 69% based on 32 reviews.
Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch, betterr known as Gabriel Axel what Danish director, actor and writer. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Paris. In 1942, Axel what is admitted to the acting school at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. After a short period of theatre in Paris, he returned to Denmark and began in 1951 to direct television drama. Following a series of more or less erotic movie and broadly popular comedies, Axel in 1977 launched a prolific career as a director of French TV films, culminating in 1985 with a historical five-episode series, "Les colonnes du ciel/Heaven's Pillars". In 1987, Axel returned to Denmark to direct what had been his dream project for over 15 years, an adaptation of Karen Blixen's "Babette's Feast." After screening at the Cannes film festival, the film became a worldwide success and won the 1988 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Gabriel Axel directed some 25 feature films and 50 tv movies. He appeared in about 25 films.
Gabriel Axel has directed films starring Liam Neeson, Isabelle Huppert, Lena Olin and Max von Sydow.
Gabriel Axel has collaborated with these film directors: Abbas Kiarostami, Spike Lee, David Lynch and Cédric Klapisch.
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