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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.
March 19, 2000
Shaftesbury Productions, BBC
12 people
Felicity Kendal
The Narrator
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Ralph Fiennes
Marcel Proust
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Phyllida Law
Virginia Woolf
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Donald Sinden
Duc d'Albufera
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Phelim Drew
James Joyce
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Richard Blackford
Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
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Lily Bevan
Celeste Albaret
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Katherine Porter
Anna de Noailles
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Alain de Botton
Self
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Louis de Bernières
Self
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Doris Lessing
Self
Writing
Pierre Rosenberg
Self
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