How Proust Can Change Your Life

4.7
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 58 min
  • Premiere: 2000. March 19.

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 Kendal

The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew

James Joyce

Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles

Camera

Paul Teverini

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Linda de Vetta

Makeup Artist

Jenny Beavan

Costume Designer

Anna Kot

Assistant Costume Designer

Mary Hillman

Makeup Artist

Production

Faustina Gilbey

Production Coordinator

Robert Ide

Production Designer

Writing

Camera

Paul Teverini

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Linda de Vetta

Makeup Artist

Jenny Beavan

Costume Designer

Anna Kot

Assistant Costume Designer

Mary Hillman

Makeup Artist

Production

Faustina Gilbey

Production Coordinator

Robert Ide

Production Designer

Writing