How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)
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.
How Proust Can Change Your LifeDocumentary
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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