

19/03/2000
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.

Felicity Kendal
as The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes
as Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law
as Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden
as Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew
as James Joyce

Richard Blackford
as Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan
as Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter
as Anna de Noailles

Alain de Botton
as Self

Louis de Bernières
as Self

Doris Lessing
as Self

Pierre Rosenberg
as Self
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