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.
- genus: Documentary
- Studio: Shaftesbury Productions, BBC
- keyword: based on novel or book, social life, novelist, parisian, self expression, bedridden, social class, life lessons, french writer
- cast: Felicity Kendal, Ralph Fiennes, Phyllida Law, Donald Sinden, Phelim Drew, Richard Blackford
