How Proust Can Change Your Life

Documentary · 2000

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.

Starring

Mary Hillman, Felicity Kendal, Jenny Beavan, Paul Teverini, Ralph Fiennes, Phyllida Law, Anna Kot, Robert Ide, Donald Sinden