The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day is a film directed by James Ivory in 1993 and based on the 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The author of the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro, was born and raised in Nagasaki (Japan) until 1960, when his family moved to Surrey (England). He took his studies and became a novelist at the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia.

In 1989 wrote The Remains of the Day, his most famous novel and the one which won the Man Booker Prize.

Nowadays, Ishiguro is considered one of the best fiction authors in the English-speaking world.

The Remains of the Day tells the story of Mr Stevens, an English butler who dedicates his entire life to the service of Lord Darlington, and his frustrated love to a colleague, Miss Kenton, the housekeeper, in the history background of the Second World War.

In 1993 Merchant Ivory Productions adapted a film based on the Ishiguro's novel. It was directed by James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala made the adaptation of the novel.

The director, James Ivory, is an American film director best-known for his films A Room with a View (1985), Mr and Mrs Bridge (1990) and Howards End (1992), which received nominations to the Academy Awards and won a few of them.

The film starred Anthony Hopkins as Mr Stevens, Emma Tompson as Miss Kenton, James Fox as Lord Darlington, Christopher Reeve as Congressman Trent Lewis and Hugh Grant as Cardinal.