Documentary
How Proust Can Change Your Life
User Score3 votes
47%4.7/10
Release2000→
Runtime0H 58M
LanguageFrench
StatusReleased
Synopsis
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
Principal Cast8

Felicity Kendal
The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes
Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law
Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden
Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew
James Joyce
Richard Blackford
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Lily Bevan
Celeste Albaret
Katherine Porter
Anna de Noailles
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Keywords
based on novel or booksocial lifenovelistparisianself expressionbedriddensocial classlife lessonsfrench writer
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Countries:United Kingdom
Production:Shaftesbury ProductionsBBC






















