Les Vestiges du jour
PG

Les Vestiges du jour

La vie de la classe supérieure et des domestiques dans l'Angleterre de l'après Première Guerre mondiale.

1993 • 134 min • Drama · Romance

Our family guide

Best from age 12
87
Movie Knight Score
1536 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
  • 74 Audience · 1534 · 49%

Un majordome dévoué évolue dans un monde en mutation et face à ses propres aspirations personnelles tout en servant un lord britannique pendant la montée du nazisme. Sa stricte adhésion au devoir entre en conflit avec ses sentiments pour la nouvelle gouvernante et la politique controversée de son maître.

Violence & peril
1/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
2/10
Romance & sensuality
2/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Contexte historique impliquant le nazisme, bien que non graphique.
  • Thèmes subtils d'amour non partagé et de regret.
  • Certaines scènes montrent des personnages buvant de l'alcool et fumant.

What it models well

  • Loyauté et dévouement
  • Dignité dans le service
  • Sacrifice de soi

Talk about it after

  • La nature du devoir par rapport au bonheur personnel
  • La montée du nazisme et le contexte historique
  • Les occasions manquées et le regret
  • La retenue émotionnelle et ses conséquences

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Top billed cast

Director: James Ivory • Crew: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**It is an excellent film, even if I disagree with the thesis on which it was made.** In the period between the two world wars, the world tried to make sure that there was never again something as destructive and traumatic as the First World War.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

This is one of Anthony Hopkins' most nuanced and classy performances, depicting the last of a dying breed of upper servants in the stately home of "Lord Darlington" (James Fox). It's told by way of a retrospective as he takes some time off from his work as butler to American millionaire "Lewis" (Christopher Reeve) and goes for a drive to meet the former housekeeper "Miss Kenton" (Emma Thompson).…

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Details

TMDB audience
7.4/10 (1,534)
Age rating
PG
Status
Released
Budget
$11,500,000
Box office
$23,240,144

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