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.
Top Cast

Felicity Kendal
as The Narrator
The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes
as Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law
as Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
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