How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000, English.
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.
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- 0h 58m
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- English
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Cast & crew
- Felicity KendalThe Narrator
- Ralph FiennesMarcel Proust
- Phyllida LawVirginia Woolf
- Donald SindenDuc d'Albufera
- Phelim DrewJames Joyce
- Richard BlackfordGabriel de La Rochefoucauld
- Lily BevanCeleste Albaret
- Katherine PorterAnna de Noailles
- Alain de BottonSelf
- Louis de BernièresSelf
- Doris LessingSelf
- Pierre RosenbergSelf
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- Released
- 19 March 2000
- Country
- United Kingdom
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What How Proust Can Change Your Life is based on
How Proust Can Change Your Life is based on How Proust Can Change Your Life, a 1997 novel by Alain de Botton.
Novel · 1997
How Proust Can Change Your Life
By Alain de Botton
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How Proust Can Change Your Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 19 March 2000. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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What is How Proust Can Change Your Life based on?
How Proust Can Change Your Life is based on How Proust Can Change Your Life, a 1997 novel by Alain de Botton.