Documentary
How Proust Can Change Your Life(2000)
5.2(4)
58m
2000-03-19
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.
Keywords
based on novel or booksocial lifenovelistparisianself expressionbedridden
