7º – The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
We will follow some moments of the life of a butler of an important family of the twentieth century, glimpsing his rigid moral model of dealing with the social siege. The film gains its substance when the man realizes that he had given his entire life for an uncertain and not very substantial ideal. Hard and poetic at each outdated scene, this masterpiece by James Ivory works on the destructive degree that some values held as a rule in different societies possess for the subjectivity of various individuals. ‘The Remais of the Day’ still offers us the greatest performance of actor Anthony Hopkins’ career.
6º – Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989)
An old woman hires a black man to work as her driver, forming an unlikely strange bond of friendship with him. ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ is light in her scene unleashing, proposing a simple but punctual story in her onslaughts.
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