How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

2000-03-19| 58 min

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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Documentary

Cast

Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Phyllida Law

Phyllida Law

Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden

Phelim Drew

Phelim Drew

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