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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
Director	Raul Ruiz
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- 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.
- 30299
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  - 5
  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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  - UK
  - 27 Jul 2004 at 11:00
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- - 1
  - 0
  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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  - Grantham
  - 06 Jan 2009 at 15:55
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  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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  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 6
  - 0
  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 »
  
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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 09 Feb 2007 at 11:14
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  Waft along
  
  A pleasant couple of hours in the company of Marcel Proust and friends. You don't really have to be a Proust expert to just waft along in a kind of ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
  - 554 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 05 Feb 2007 at 14:40
- - 3
  - 0
  Le temps perdu, indeed
  
  Marcel, I sympathise, In Search of Lost Time is how I felt after... read more »
  
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- - Deditos
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  - 18 Jan 2007 at 13:16
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  Brilliant
  
  If you love Proust, this will make you purr. Delicious, sumptious, nice and long.
  
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  - scotland
  - 12 May 2006 at 15:40
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  Time Lost - unfortunately
  
  I love French films. I love difficult films but boy did I struggle to get any meaning out of this one. Catherine Deneuve is given top billing but she is barely ... read more »
  
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- 195070
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  - Reading, England
  - 17 Jan 2006 at 14:12
- - 3
  - 0
  hard work
  
  Two and a half hours long but felt a lot longer. Took me three days to finish this film. Could have just not bothered after the first hour but it felt like one ... read more »
  
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- - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 25 Nov 2005 at 22:49
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  Time Regained
  
  If you enjoy French films you will love this one. Brilliant photography, acting and directing, and a fascinating social study of the upper classes of that time... read more »
  
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  - Bristol, England
  - 09 Aug 2005 at 14:50
- - 6
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  Difficult but worth it
  
  Trying to write anything involving Proust is the same as accepting an invitation to Private Eye?s Pseuds Corner. Yet Time Regained is a great film so long as ... read more »
  
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  - 29 May 2005 at 10:27
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- - 10
  - 5
  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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  - 27 Jul 2004 at 11:00
- - 6
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  Difficult but worth it
  
  Trying to write anything involving Proust is the same as accepting an invitation to Private Eye?s Pseuds Corner. Yet Time Regained is a great film so long as ... read more »
  
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  - Cirencester
  - 29 May 2005 at 10:27
- - 6
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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 »
  
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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 09 Feb 2007 at 11:14
- - 4
  - 1
  The fault lies in the script
  
  I did not like this film, although I am not faulting it for its production values, which are of a high quality. The acting and the portrayal of early 20th ... read more »
  
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- - RustyT
  - Dorset
  - 25 Aug 2004 at 14:37
- - 4
  - 2
  Terrible, just don't bother
  
  A film so awful, shallow, and hilariously pretentious that fortunately it wasn't powerful enough to spoil the books for me at all.
  
  To begin with... read more »
  
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- - CalvinF
  - Nottinghamshire
  - 17 Oct 2004 at 14:27
- - 3
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  hard work
  
  Two and a half hours long but felt a lot longer. Took me three days to finish this film. Could have just not bothered after the first hour but it felt like one ... read more »
  
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- - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 25 Nov 2005 at 22:49
- - 3
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  Magnificent evocation of Proust’s masterpiece.
  
  This film is a must see for any Proust lover, or anyone taking a deep breath before embarking on this 4,732 page wonder work. For those with no interest in ... read more »
  
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- - milnerv
  - Dorset
  - 01 May 2005 at 15:42
- - 3
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  Le temps perdu, indeed
  
  Marcel, I sympathise, In Search of Lost Time is how I felt after... read more »
  
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- - Deditos
  - 15 reviews
  - Reading
  - 18 Jan 2007 at 13:16
- - 1
  - 0
  Time Regained
  
  If you enjoy French films you will love this one. Brilliant photography, acting and directing, and a fascinating social study of the upper classes of that time... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 138151
- - a customer
  - Bristol, England
  - 09 Aug 2005 at 14:50
- - 1
  - 0
  Time Lost - unfortunately
  
  I love French films. I love difficult films but boy did I struggle to get any meaning out of this one. Catherine Deneuve is given top billing but she is barely ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 195070
- - a customer
  - Reading, England
  - 17 Jan 2006 at 14:12

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Critics' reviews
- 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.
- 30299
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
- "...Ruiz has approached that literarary Godzilla, Marcel Proust's REMEMBERANCE OF THINGS PAST, from the most challenging vantage point possible..."
- 7845
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- An extraordinary conflation of avant garde art film and deluxe literary period drama, this ambitious assault on... read more on Time Out
- 43444
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
- "...Visually spectacular....Ravishing....TIME REGAINED is a tour de force, gorgeous yet stark..."
- 7846
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58

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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 ...