How Proust Can Change Your Life

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.

Cast

Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew

James Joyce

N/A

Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

N/A

Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret

N/A

Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles

Alain de Botton

Self

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Louis de Bernières

Self

Doris Lessing

Self

Pierre Rosenberg

Self