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Marcel Proust's Time Regained

Original title: Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust
  • 19991999
  • 2h 49m
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Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
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A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
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    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Marcel Proust(novel 'Le temps retrouvé')
    • Gilles Taurand(scenario)
    • Raúl Ruiz(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Catherine Deneuve
    • Emmanuelle Béart
    • Vincent Perez
    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Marcel Proust(novel 'Le temps retrouvé')
    • Gilles Taurand(scenario)
    • Raúl Ruiz(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Catherine Deneuve
    • Emmanuelle Béart
    • Vincent Perez
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    • 72Metascore
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    Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve
    • Odette de Crecy
    Emmanuelle Béart
    Emmanuelle Béart
    • Gilberte
    Vincent Perez
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    • Morel
    John Malkovich
    John Malkovich
    • Le Baron de Charlus
    Pascal Greggory
    Pascal Greggory
    • Saint-Loup
    Marcello Mazzarella
    Marcello Mazzarella
    • Marcel Proust
    Marie-France Pisier
    Marie-France Pisier
    • Madame Verdurin
    Chiara Mastroianni
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    Arielle Dombasle
    Arielle Dombasle
    • Madame de Farcy
    Edith Scob
    Edith Scob
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    • Céleste
    Jacques Pieiller
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      • Raúl Ruiz
      • Marcel Proust(novel 'Le temps retrouvé')
      • Gilles Taurand(scenario)
      • Raúl Ruiz(scenario)
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    • Trivia
      The third time that Chiara Mastroianni has acted alongside her mother, Catherine Deneuve.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: What Lies Beneath/I'm the One That I Want/Croupier/Loser/Time Regained (2000)
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      Le temps retrouvé (Vocalise)
      Written by Jorge Arriagada

      Performed by Natalie Dessay (soprano)

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    A few more touches and it would've been really overwhelming
    Fans of 8-1/2 and Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini's two most Proustian films by way of Jung) take note: Here's another worthy contender to those two masterpieces. It damn near reaches their level and it sure looks expensive and ultra-authentic, and only time will tell if it holds up as well.

    If you've read some Proust (I've only read around a 1000 pages of 'The Guermantes Way' myself and it was at turns the toughest, the most excruciatingly boring and most deeply rewarding reading I've ever inflicted on myself), you will know exactly where this movie is coming from; if you haven't, make plans to read some later, but watch this movie with the knowledge that there is NO STORY IN THE CONVENTIONAL SENSE; it is about how a person's memory works and how and what it chooses to remember and forget and how all these different things effect each other, blah, blah. It aims for the spirit of the books and a taste of what their atmosphere is like, and knows that to even approach this humble end it must, at the very least, begin by pushing the means of the cinema to their limit. It is not stupid enough to think it can equal the intellectual effect of Proustian prose. That would be absurd and impossible.

    So how does Ruiz's film fare? Suffice it to say that it does not take long to realize that this not a pretentious film but a deeply thought out, planned, and fully realized one. If it manages to capture the spirit of Proustian investigation, it did not do this easily and don't expect to digest it in one or two viewings. You will certainly be immediately impressed though, I'll tell you that much. Be prepared to ACTIVELY participate rather than be DONE TO. There are constant shifts of time period between the different stages of Proust's life and the fully mobile camera never stands still for your convenience.

    The acting is top notch and multi-faceted all the way and the production design is magnificent. Although it certainly looks very expensive, I can't imagine anyone doing a better job with less, except maybe Truffaut (Jules and Jim) or Renoir (French CanCan). There are plenty of distractions along the way, especially the butt-gorgeous Emmanuel Beart for us helpless men of hetero persuasion, not to mention the jaw-dropping, classical beauty of Chiara Mastroianni in her one scene, which she steals. On second viewing, after having just watched the Coen brothers' ultra-subtle and hilariously clever 'Blood Simple,' I did vaguely detect some weaknesses that someone like Eric Rohmer or Rossellini and Scorsese in their prime would have been careful to authenticate to 3 dimensions; but they weren't noticeable enough to put your finger on right away.

    I have never seen another Ruiz film before, but I think that the greatest thing he did here was to let Proust's general sense of things, his ultra-cultured neurotic sensibility, become his co-director on the film. I'm sure, at the very least, he made all his actors read the book he was adapting and discussed it with them thoroughly. Just the experience of doing that will enrich the aspirations and imagination of any actor, because Proust's writing is all about going into long analyses of things that may seem trivial at first glance.

    All I can say is Ruiz really blew me away on this film and I can't wait to see what else he had up his sleeve all these years that I've been missing his movies.
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      • May 19, 1999 (France)
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      • Gemini Films
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