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How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)

0h 58m | PG-13

⭐ 6.5 / 10

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.

Director: N/A

Studio: Shaftesbury Productions

Genre: Documentary

Video: 720p

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Cast

Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal

as The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

as Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Phyllida Law

as Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden

as Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew

Phelim Drew

as James Joyce

Richard Blackford

Richard Blackford

as Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld