It is 1803 in Konigsberg, where philosopher Immanuel Kant lives out his twilight days in an eccentric routine as severe and precise as his writings. Each morning he rises from his strange bedclothes, imbibes exactly three gulps of coffee, then proceeds to his daily perambulation, a ritual of clocklike steps. In failing health, Kant uses the exactitude of his routine as a hedge against one of his most chilling observations: "The absence of life that follows life is death." Director Collin's highly original and beautifully contained film captures Kant's final days with flawless composition, rendering in elegant black and white the philosopher's own obsession with detail. David Warrilow, a master interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett, portrays Kant as a fragile, cranky genius, implicitly humorous in his persnickety need for order. If philosophy is a refusal of humanity's inevitable decline, The Last Days of Immanuel Kant draws with sly humor an act of grand resistance.