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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
Genres:
Documentary
Release:
March 2000
Production:
Shaftesbury Productions, BBC
Cast:
Felicity Kendal, Ralph Fiennes, Phyllida Law, Donald Sinden, Phelim Drew, Richard Blackford, Lily Bevan, Katherine Porter, Alain de Botton, Louis de Bernières, Doris Lessing, Pierre Rosenberg
Tags:
based on novel or book, social life, novelist, parisian, self expression, bedridden, social class, life lessons, french writer
