
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000•58 min•
★4.7
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.
Cast & Crew

Felicity Kendal
The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes
Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law
Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden
Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew
James Joyce

Richard Blackford
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan
Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter
Anna de Noailles

Alain de Botton
Self

Louis de Bernières
Self
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