The chief holder of the heartbreak is the central character and narrator, Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), an unflappably professional butler. The backdrop here is mid-century England, both at the height of its coat-tailed class order and the crumbling of this worldview post-second world war.
James Ivory’s 1993 film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day reminds us that the scale of history is in fact contained in heartbreaking miniatures – individual lives and loves that unfold against the backdrop of wars and political intrigue. T wo of life’s chief comforts for the price of one: a classic film, and a masterful reworking of a classic novel.
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