How Proust Can Change Your Life
movie
Released March 19, 2000
Genres:
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
as
The Narrator
Ralph Fiennes
as
Marcel Proust
Phyllida Law
as
Virginia Woolf
Donald Sinden
as
Duc d'Albufera
Phelim Drew
as
James Joyce
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Richard Blackford
as
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
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Lily Bevan
as
Celeste Albaret
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Katherine Porter
as
Anna de Noailles
Alain de Botton
as
Self
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Louis de Bernières
as
Self
Doris Lessing
as
Self
Pierre Rosenberg
as
Self
