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How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

20004.70h 58m

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.

Written by Alain de Botton
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Top 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

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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

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

Self

L

Louis de Bernières

Self

Themes & Keywords

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About How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life is a documentary film released in 2000 exploring themes of based on novel or book, social life, novelist, parisian, self expression, bedridden. it stars Felicity Kendal, Ralph Fiennes, Phyllida Law. 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.

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