How Proust Can Change Your Life

0h 58m 4.7/10

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.

Director

Top Billed Cast

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

Phelim Drew

Phelim Drew

James Joyce

Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

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