|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
Drama /
Romance /
Music
|
|
Release:
|
|
|
Director:
|
James Ivory
|
|
Actors:
|
Peter Vaughan,
Emma Thompson,
Ben Chaplin,
Christopher Reeve,
John Haycraft,
Caroline Hunt,
Paula Jacobs,
Steve Dibben,
Anthony Hopkins,
James Fox
|
|
Duration:
|
134 min.
|
|
Rating:
|
(7.9/10)131
|
|
Plot Summary:
|
James Ivory directed this quietly going film set just prior to World War II. On the large English property of The Supreme Being Darlington (James Fox), a disciplined butler, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), devotes himself to his duties with rigorous address. Like his father (Peter Vaughan) formerly him, Stevens lives to serve--to bring position and certainty to the estate's minutiae. Though Stevens has the possibility to habituate free of this mold in the cast of a romance with the buoyant housekeeper, Disregard Kenton (Emma Thompson), he chooses to endure within the safe as the Bank of England s... hape of the household, even inseparable that has misguided loyalties to Nazi Germany. Christopher Reeve and Hugh Assign costar as men hoping to exhibit Earl Darlington the danger of his allegiances. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY is Merchant-Ivory's escort-up to HOWARDS END, which also starred Hopkins and Thompson; both actors were nominated in favour of Academy Awards benefit of their roles as responsible servants in the later coat.
Read more Less
|
|
Tags:
|
|
The Remains of the Day
This impeccable adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Windfall-prepossessing novel stars Anthony Hopkins as the emotionally repressed butler and Emma Thompson as the housekeeper he mayhap loves. Framed in flashbacks, the story is an English twist on Jean Renoir's classic La Règle du Jeu, a broad view of a narrow class of aristocrats on the verge of self-demolition. Co-starring James Fox as a fascistic English act big and Christopher Reeve as an American diplomat (the past and present owners of Darlington Auditorium), it is as much a study in power and politics as it is Hopkins's blinkered watch of the world from behind the gleaming silver salvers. The 1930s and 40s settings are immaculately staged, and, divergent from James Ivory's earlier dramatisations of EM F...
The Remains of the Day
"...Enchantingly realized....The film] has its own, securely firsthand cinematic life..."
The Remains of the Day
An artful, nicely composed study in repressed emotions, stiff higher up lips and genre attitudes; in the end review, though, it seems no more than P. G. Wodehouse re-played as tragedy.
|
