How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

4.7(3 votes)
2000
0h 58m
Documentary

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.

Production

Shaftesbury Productions, BBC

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

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