Time Regained (1999)

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel’s lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel’s beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust’s novel.
Raúl Ruiz, Guillaume Roitfeld, Barbara Constantine
Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Marcello Mazzarella, Marie-France Pisier, Chiara Mastroianni, Arielle Dombasle, Edith Scob, Elsa Zylberstein, Christian Vadim, Melvil Poupaud, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-François Lapalus, Dominique Labourier, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Mathilde Seigner, Jacques Pieiller, Hélène Surgère, André Engel, Georges Du Fresne, Monique Mélinand, Laurence Février, Jean-François Balmer, Pierre Mignard, Lucien Pascal, Jérôme Prieur, Bernard Pautrat, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ingrid Caven, Jean-Claude Jay, Camille Du Fresne, Alain Rimoux, Alain Guillo, Xavier Briere, Bernard Garnier, Monique Couturier, Isa Mercure, Pierre-Alain Chapuis, Jean-François Lapalus, Damien Odoul, Daniel Isoppo, Patrice Juiff, Pascal Tokatlian, Marine Delterme, Jean Badin, Laurent Schwaar, Alexandre Soulié, Sébastien Libessart, Fabrice Cals, Hervé Falloux, Francis Leplay, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Diane Dassigny, Alain Duclos
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