How Proust Can Change Your Life
Released: March 19, 2000Runtime: 58 min
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.
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Lily Bevan
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Richard Blackford
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Phelim Drew
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Ralph Fiennes
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Walter James
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Jonathan Kemp
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Felicity Kendal
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Katherine Porter
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