How Proust Can Change Your Life

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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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

58 minutes

Year:

2000

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Company:

Shaftesbury Productions,

BBC

Cast:
Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew

James Joyce

Crew:
Anna Kot

Assistant Costume Designer

Linda de Vetta

Makeup Artist

Faustina Gilbey

Production Coordinator

Jenny Beavan

Costume Designer

Robert Ide

Production Designer