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How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

★ 6.2/10•2000•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.

StatusReleased
Runtime58m
LanguageEN
Release DateMar 19, 2000

Actors

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

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

Self

Louis de Bernières

Self

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Self

Pierre Rosenberg

Pierre Rosenberg

Self

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