How Proust Can Change Your Life

Mar 19, 2000

0h 58m

★ 4.7

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Shaftesbury Productions

BBC

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Cast

The Narrator

Felicity Kendal

Marcel Proust

Ralph Fiennes

Virginia Woolf

Phyllida Law

Duc d'Albufera

Donald Sinden

James Joyce

Phelim Drew

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Richard Blackford

Celeste Albaret

Lily Bevan

Anna de Noailles

Katherine Porter

Self

Alain de Botton

Self

Louis de Bernières

Self

Doris Lessing

Self

Pierre Rosenberg

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