In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Direction
Ruiz turns memory into spatial architecture — rooms melt, time folds.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a painting that knows it's being watched.
Costume
Belle Époque drip so exquisite you'll weep into your sweatpants.
Director
Raúl Ruiz
Catherine Deneuve
Odette
Emmanuelle Béart
Gilberte
Vincent Perez
Morel
John Malkovich
Baron de Charlus
Pascal Greggory
Saint-Loup
Marcello Mazzarella
Marcel
Marie-France Pisier
Madame Verdurin
Chiara Mastroianni
Albertine
Arielle Dombasle
Madame de Farcy
Édith Scob
Oriane de Guermantes
Elsa Zylberstein
Rachel
Christian Vadim
Bloch
Melvil Poupaud
Prince of Foix
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Goncourt
Jean-François Lapalus
Café de la Paix's head waiter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ruiz filmed without completing the script, adapting Proust's final volume day-by-day on set.
Malkovich learned French phonetically for Charlus; his strange delivery accidentally captures the Baron's foreignness within aristocracy.
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