How Proust Can Change Your Life
5.2
4 votes·2000
·58m
·MovieDocumentary
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.
Keywords
based on novel or booksocial lifenovelistparisianself expressionbedriddensocial classlife lessonsfrench writer
Cast
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
Alain de Botton
Self
Louis de Bernières
Self
Doris Lessing
Self
Pierre Rosenberg
Self
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