How Proust Can Change Your Life

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4.7(3 votes)
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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.

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12 members
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Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

Felicity Kendal
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Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Ralph Fiennes
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Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Phyllida Law
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Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Donald Sinden
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Phelim Drew

James Joyce

Phelim Drew
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Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

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Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret

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Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles

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Alain de Botton

Self

Alain de Botton
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Louis de Bernières

Self

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Doris Lessing

Self

Doris Lessing
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Pierre Rosenberg

Self

Pierre Rosenberg

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