“The Last Days of Immanuel Kant,” a Physical Comedy of the Philosophical Life

...The film depicts Kant's famous punctuality by way of his daily stroll through a park lane: a governess times the end of her entrusted children's play, and a foreman the end of his workers' break, according to when the philosopher passes by (followed by Lampe, a dozen steps back, who must carry a parasol whether or not it's needed). Unyielding in his habits, his senses infinitesimally calibrated to register changes of routine, of temperature, and of environment, he's similarly attuned to his own metabolism and the minutiae of his physical state, all with an overarching philosophical principle at stake, the maintenance of health in view of the preservation of life—and the pursuit of his colossal intellectual project, which, in his late seventies, remained in full swing... Ultimately, "The Last Days" is a movie about the body winding down while the mind is fully ablaze... New Yorker