How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)
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.
Cast
- Felicity Kendal as The Narrator
- Ralph Fiennes as Marcel Proust
- Phyllida Law as Virginia Woolf
- Donald Sinden as Duc d'Albufera
- Phelim Drew as James Joyce
- Richard Blackford as Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
- Lily Bevan as Celeste Albaret
- Katherine Porter as Anna de Noailles
- Alain de Botton as Self
- Louis de Bernières as Self
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