Film·2000·58m

How Proust Can Change Your Life

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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Cast

12 credited

Felicity Kendal

Felicity KendalThe Narrator

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph FiennesMarcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Phyllida LawVirginia Woolf

Donald Sinden

Donald SindenDuc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew

Phelim DrewJames Joyce

Richard Blackford

Richard BlackfordGabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan

Lily BevanCeleste Albaret

Katherine Porter

Katherine PorterAnna de Noailles

Alain de Botton

Alain de BottonSelf

Louis de Bernières

Louis de BernièresSelf

Doris Lessing

Doris LessingSelf

Pierre Rosenberg

Pierre RosenbergSelf

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