Remains Of The Day

The remains of the dayis a 1993 british american drama filmand adapted from the booker prize winning 1989 novel of the same nameby kazuo ishiguro.

Remains of the day. The protagonist stevens is a butler with a long record of service at darlington hall a stately home near oxford england. Directed by james ivory. In july 1956 stevens decides to take a six day road trip to the west country of england a region to the west of darlington hall the house in which stevens resides and has worked as a butler for thirty four years. In the remains of the day stevens takes respite from his butler s duty to undertake a short excursion into west country to visit miss kenton a woman who once worked with him as lord darlington s housekeeper.

On his travels he reminisces about his life dedicated to serving his master proudly and faithfully and somewhat on the margin. This film was entirely character driven and in the wrong hands could have been a crushing bore. Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from ismail merchant and james ivory the remains of the day is based on a novel by kazuo ishiguro. The remains of the day the remains of the day is told in the first person narration of an english butler named stevens.

The film was directed by james ivory produced by ismail merchant mike nichols and john calleyand adapted by ruth prawer jhabvala. With anthony hopkins emma thompson john haycraft christopher reeve. The remains of the day was the more challenging of the two. Anthony hopkins plays.

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to world war ii realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer. Howard s end was a more plot driven film in which the characters are seemingly driven by an inexorable fate.