映画 The Remains of the Day

Blockbuster VideoにはおいてなかったのでeBayでDVDを買いました

英日の本ももってます。

先週の火曜日が仕事始めで、到着するまでに40㎏の重い荷物をもって行き来した
その疲れがまだどれていませんでした。
今日までちょっとがんばったので、午後遅く自分への褒美として
ソファにすわって映画をみました。

この映画で一番思ったのは
クリストファーリーブ。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day_(film)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日の名残り_(映画)

スーパーマンでよく知られていますが
映画の中でアメリカ人としての存在感がほどよくあり
名優でした！！
いろんな役を演じられた人だったのだなと知りました。

ヒューグラントがこのときはまだよく知られてなかったらしいのですが、彼もなんとなく明るさがあってよかったです。

小説は1989年に出版され映画は1993年のものです。

DVDのスペシャルには車いすのクリストファーリーブがでていました。

カズオイシグロもスペシャルでコメントしていましたよ。
イギリスのバトラーが一生の時間を無駄につかっている感じというようなことをいっていました？

次のアメリカ人のルイ家にはこどもも奥さんもいるので
その家族を通していろんな喜怒哀楽を体験できるとよいなと思いました。
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見るまではもっと旅行記っぽいのかとも思っていたのですが
まったく違いました。

In 1950s post-war Britain, Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from Miss Kenton, a recently divorced former work colleague employed as the housekeeper some twenty years earlier. Lord Darlington has died a broken man, his reputation destroyed after he was exposed as a Nazi sympathizer, and his stately country manor has been sold to a retired United States Congressman, Mr Lewis. Stevens is granted permission to borrow his Daimler, and he sets off to the West Country to meet Miss Kenton.
The film flashes back to Kenton's arrival as housekeeper in the 1930s. The ever efficient Stevens manages the household well, taking great pride in his profession, and his dedication is fully displayed when, while his father lies dying, he steadfastly continues his duties. Kenton, too, proves to be a valuable servant, and she is equally efficient and strong-willed, but also warmer and less repressed. Relations between the two eventually warm, and it becomes clear that she has feelings for him, yet despite their proximity and shared purpose, Stevens' detachment remains unchanged. Eventually, she forms a relationship with a former co-worker and leaves the house prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Before she resigns, Stevens finds her crying in frustration, but the only response he can muster is to call her attention to a neglected domestic task.
Meanwhile, the hall is regularly frequented by politicians of the interwar period, and many of Lord Darlington's guests are like-minded British and European aristocrats, with the exception of Congressman Lewis. Darlington later also meets Prime Minister Chamberlain and the German Ambassador, and uses his influence to try to broker a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, based on his belief that Germany had been unfairly treated by the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War. In the midst of these events, one day Darlington suddenly requests that two newly appointed German-Jewish maids, both refugees, should be dismissed. Stevens carries out the command, and Kenton threatens resignation in protest, but she is too timid to do so.
En route to meeting Kenton, when asked about his former employer, Stevens at first denies having served or even met him, but later admits to having served and respected him. He meets Kenton (now Mrs Benn), and they reminisce, but she declines Stevens' offer to return to Darlington Hall, wishing instead to remain near her pregnant daughter. After the meeting, Kenton is emotional, while Stevens is still unable to demonstrate any feeling. Back in Darlington Hall, Lewis asks Stevens if he remembers much of the old days, to which Stevens replies that he was too busy serving. Symbolically, a pigeon then becomes trapped in the hall, and the two men eventually free it, leaving both Stevens and Darlington Hall far behind.

それから、結婚するとMs Kentonにいってきた若い子(Lizzy)は
Game of Throneのラニスター家の人が演じていました。

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