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Based on the concluding installment of Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past," a dying Proust reflects upon his life from his deathbed, remembering many of the people who've affected and influenced him during the course of his adult life, from the 1880s to the early 1920s. Among them are Odette, a .. Read more
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, John Malkovich, Vincent Perez |
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| Director | Raul Ruiz |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Based on the concluding installment of Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past," a dying Proust reflects upon his life from his deathbed, remembering many of the people who've affected and influenced him during the course of his adult life, from the 1880s to the early 1920s. Among them are Odette, a beautiful woman who's succeeded in life, but whose husband betrays her with both a female actress and a male pianist. The husband prefers the company of military men to that of the salons of Parisian high society, but it was in these very salons that young Proust found his literary inspiration, and it's in these rarefied rooms that his cherished memories reside.
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, John Malkovich, Vincent Perez, Marcello Mazzarella, Pascal Greggory, Marie-France Pisier, Chiara Mastroianni, Alain Robbe-Grillet |
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| Director | Raul Ruiz |
| Studio | METRODOME DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1999 To Rent: DVD: 12 Jun 2000 |
An elegant production that plays tricks with time and space, eliding past and present and showing events from shifting perspectives; what it cannot do is finally persuade us that its parade iof characters warrants an audience's extended attention.
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I found it boring
I'm not averse to period drama but I was to this. Perhaps if I had read the book I would have enjoyed it. Trying to cover so much in a short film (... read more »
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Memory required
If you have read the set of Proust novels and can recall them you will enjoy this film. If you have yet to read the novels set yourself down for a few weeks and... read more »
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Customer Review
Boringly self-indulgent French crap. I have nothing against french films, as some are in my top list (Jean de Florette, etc). But this was so terribly boring ... read more »
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Brilliant, but difficult
No-one should underestimate Raul Ruiz' stringent intellectualism. In tackling the final volume of Proust's masterwork, he makes no apologies for his ... read more »