How Proust Can Change Your Life

58min

Documentary

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.

Production Companies

Shaftesbury Productions

BBC

Cast

Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal

The Narrator
Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust
Phyllida Law

Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf
Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera
Phelim Drew

Phelim Drew

James Joyce
Richard Blackford

Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Lily Bevan

Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret
Katherine Porter

Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles

Release date

19th Mar 2000

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English, Français