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How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)

4.7 | Mar 19, 2000 (US) | Documentary | 00:58

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
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Ralph Fiennes
Marcel Proust
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Phyllida Law
Virginia Woolf
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Donald Sinden
Duc d'Albufera
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James Joyce
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Richard Blackford
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
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Celeste Albaret
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Anna de Noailles

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