One of Proust’s beauties.
In 1999, Chilean director Raúl Ruiz made the best movie based on a work by Marcel Proust. But I’m already misleading the reader. Though the film is called Time Regained, which is, for sure, the title of the last book of Proust’s sprawling (4,215 pages) series of novels called, collectively, Remembrance of Things Past, the film is not really about Time Regained, but the whole novel, and also the last days of its author’s life.
Ruiz’s decision to move between the real and the fictional Marcel—the novel’s narrator shares the same name as its author—and between the first and the last books, is precisely what makes his film Proustian.
