How Proust Can Change Your Life

2000Movie58 min

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A slow-burning, layered documentary movie about history and a real life story.

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Story

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.

Feels like

  • Marcel Proust
  • Literary Analysis
  • Docu-Drama
  • Self-Help Guide
  • Philosophical Exploration
  • Historical Context
  • Modern Relevance
  • Intriguing Narrative
  • Witty Dialogue

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Alain de Botton

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Facts

March 19, 2000 · 58 min · Documentary

Released
March 19, 2000
Runtime
58 min
Genres
Documentary
Original language
English
Also spoken
French
Made in
United Kingdom
Keywords
based on novel or book