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How Proust Can Change Your Life

65 %|Mar 19, 2000|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.

Featured Crew

Robert Ide
Production Designer
Jenny Beavan
Costume Designer
Anna Kot
Assistant Costume Designer
Linda de Vetta
Makeup Artist
Mary Hillman
Makeup Artist
Paul Teverini
Camera Operator
Faustina Gilbey
Production Coordinator
Alain de Botton
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Felicity Kendal
The Narrator
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Ralph Fiennes
Marcel Proust
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Phyllida Law
Virginia Woolf
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Donald Sinden
Duc d'Albufera
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Phelim Drew
James Joyce
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Richard Blackford
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
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Lily Bevan
Celeste Albaret
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Katherine Porter
Anna de Noailles