How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

2000
58m
4.7

4.7/10

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Documentary
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.

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Shaftesbury Productions BBC
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
French English

Keywords

based on novel or book social life novelist parisian self expression bedridden social class life lessons french writer

Quick Facts

Release Date March 19, 2000
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0292550

Cast

Felicity Kendal
Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law
Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden
Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew
Phelim Drew

James Joyce

Richard Blackford
Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan
Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter
Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles

Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton

Self

Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières

Self

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing

Self

Pierre Rosenberg
Pierre Rosenberg

Self

Key Crew