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How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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How Proust Can Change Your Life

2000
Directed byUnknown
0h 58m

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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Felicity KendalThe NarratorRalph FiennesMarcel ProustPhyllida Law
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Virginia Woolf
Donald SindenDuc d'Albufera
Phelim DrewJames Joyce
Richard BlackfordGabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Lily BevanCeleste Albaret
Katherine PorterAnna de Noailles
Alain de BottonSelf
Louis de BernièresSelf
DETAILS
GENRES
Documentary
STATUSReleased
RATING
4.7

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