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How Proust Can Change Your Life

4.7 58 mins Documentary   2000
Shaftesbury Productions   BBC  
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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.

Casts of How Proust Can Change Your Life

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

Richard Blackford

as Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan

as Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter

as Anna de Noailles

Alain de Botton

as Self

Doris Lessing

as Self

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