Movies
December, 1993
Unrequtted love is a trendy theme in current movies, most brilliantly achieved in The Remains of the Day (Columbia). This Merchant-Ivory production, directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, which raises inbred English reserve to an art form. It's the story of a butler (Anthony Hopkins) and a housekeeper (Emma Thompson) in the years before World War Two, when both are employed at the stately manse of an English lord (James Fox) with a...
