La Transversale : Unknown history of cinema on french television

Proust, the art and the pain

Proust, l'art et la douleur

Guy Gilles

1971
France
1h25
Documentary
B&W
in french

From Venice (where Marcel Proust always wanted to go but never did) to Illiers-Combray (which Proust visited during his childhood — and which sets the scene for much of his novel In Search of Lost Time), a poetic and personnal journey into Marcel Proust's memory. With Céleste Albaret who was Proust's housekeeper in his last years.

Cast
Patrick Jouané, Céleste Albaret, Pierre Larcher et la voix d’Emmanuelle Riva
Screenplay
Guy Gilles
Photography
Guy Gilles
Production
INA, ORTF

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