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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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.
Release / first air2000-03-19
Original languageEN
GenresDocumentary
DirectorNot available
WriterAlain de Botton
BudgetNot available
RevenueNot available
ProductionShaftesbury Productions, BBC
Cast & Crew
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Felicity KendalThe Narrator
Ralph FiennesMarcel Proust
Phyllida LawVirginia Woolf
Donald SindenDuc d'Albufera
Phelim DrewJames Joyce
Richard BlackfordGabriel de La RochefoucauldLily BevanCeleste AlbaretKatherine PorterAnna de Noailles
Alain de BottonSelfLouis de BernièresSelfKeywords
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