How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)

How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)

2000-03-19 United Kingdom 58 Min. PG-13
6.5 2 votes

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 is The Narrator
The Narrator
Ralph Fiennes is Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
Phyllida Law is Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Donald Sinden is Duc d'Albufera
Duc d'Albufera
Phelim Drew is James Joyce
James Joyce
Richard Blackford is Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Lily Bevan is Celeste Albaret
Celeste Albaret
Katherine Porter is Anna de Noailles
Anna de Noailles