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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

58 minutes

Year:

2000

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Company:

Shaftesbury Productions,

BBC

Cast:

The Narrator

Marcel Proust

Virginia Woolf

Duc d'Albufera

James Joyce

Crew:

Book

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