

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
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

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