How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)
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
The Narrator
Ralph Fiennes
Marcel Proust
Phyllida Law
Virginia Woolf
Donald Sinden
Duc d'Albufera
Phelim Drew
James Joyce
Alain de Botton
Self
Doris Lessing
Self
Pierre Rosenberg
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