How Proust Can Change Your Life
19/03/2000
1h



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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
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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