
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.

as The Narrator

as Marcel Proust

as Virginia Woolf

as Duc d'Albufera

as James Joyce

as Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

as Celeste Albaret

as Anna de Noailles

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self