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HowdyA rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
‘The Remains of the Day’: THR’s 1993 Review On Nov. 5, 1993, Columbia Pictures unveiled James Ivory's adaptation in theaters. ... The film would go on to earn eight Oscar nominations at the 66th Academy Awards, including best picture. The…
The film is most vigorously alive when themes develop from the love story, brilliantly acted by Hopkins and Thompson in roles different from but no less affecting than those that united them in Howards End. Thompson is dazzlingly good…
That the film works is down to Hopkins, who plays his face like a lyre - a tic here, an inflected eyebrow there. It's an astonishing performance, but the viewer is still hard-pressed to commit to him emotionally. It's Thompson we really…
