Time Regained

Time Regained

169 mins | Drama | May 19, 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.

Time Regained

169 mins | Drama | May 19, 1999

Time Regained
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers France 2 Cinéma, Les Films du Lendemain, Gemini Films
Original title Le Temps retrouvé
Directors Barbara Constantine, Guillaume Roitfeld, Raúl Ruiz
Writers Marcel Proust, Raúl Ruiz, Gilles Taurand

Cast

Catherine Deneuve

as Odette

Emmanuelle Béart

as Gilberte

Vincent Perez

as Morel

John Malkovich

as Le Baron de Charlus

Pascal Greggory

as Saint-Loup

Marie-France Pisier

as Madame Verdurin

Chiara Mastroianni

as Albertine

Arielle Dombasle

as Madame de Farcy

Edith Scob

as Oriane de Guermantes

Elsa Zylberstein

as Rachel

Christian Vadim

as Bloch

Melvil Poupaud

as Le Prince de Foix

Alain Robbe-Grillet

as Goncourt /

Jean-François Lapalus

as Café de la Paix's head waiter /