About How Proust Can Change Your Life
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.
Full Cast of How Proust Can Change Your Life
Felicity Kendal
plays The Narrator
Ralph Fiennes
plays Marcel Proust
Phyllida Law
plays Virginia Woolf
Donald Sinden
plays Duc d'Albufera
Phelim Drew
plays James Joyce
Richard Blackford
plays Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Lily Bevan
plays Celeste Albaret
Katherine Porter
plays Anna de Noailles
Alain de Botton
plays Himself
Louis de Bernières
plays Himself
Doris Lessing
plays Herself
Pierre Rosenberg
plays Himself
Crew of How Proust Can Change Your Life
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