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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.

2000 |0h 58m |  Documentary

Cast

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Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

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Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

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Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

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Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

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Phelim Drew

James Joyce

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Alain de Botton

Self

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Pierre Rosenberg

Self

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Released

Language

French, English

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