Excellent movie
Added 1/26/2009
Each film of Raoul Ruiz is very extraordinary! For people who enjoy metaphysical atmosphere, ambiance of sounds and visual images.
This film about Marcel Proust inner space movements will help think and feel about world around us from other viewing point or place. But for that is necessary to watch film with all kind of your senses.
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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time.
Added 10/28/2008
Prolific Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz's 1999 film Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé) will appeal to anyone with a love for Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Set on the eve of the First World War, the film tells the story of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) who revisites his past experiences while lying on his deathbed. Proust was a French a, best known for his six-volume In Search of Lost Time. He spent the last years of his life confined to his cork-lined bedroom, sleeping during the day and working at night to complete his novel. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Ruiz deserves credit for taken on the seemingly impossible challenge of bring Proust to life in film. His floating camera techniques camera remind me of the films of Max Ophuls. With a running time of 162 minutes, many viewers will simply not have the patience nor the endurance to experience this flight of fancy in its entirety. But there is a big payoff for those who do. It will bring you to the edges of your senses. At times reminscent of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ruiz's surrealistic film chronicles the flashbacks and fantasies of Marcel Proust (Marcello Mazzarella) struggling to stay conscious and complete his novel. Photographs elicit memories of his youth and his lovers. His fictional characters (played by an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve as Odette de Crécy, Emmanuelle Béart as the beautiful Gilberte, John Malkovich as the pleasure-addict Baron de Charlus, Pascal Greggory as Saint-Loup, and Chiara Mastroianni as Proust's lover Albertine) wander through his stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, this film is ultimately an insightful lesson in how to live one's life. A beautiful film recommended with reservations.
G. Merritt
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Time Regained
Added 7/9/2008
I admit I have never read Remembrances of Time Past so a lot went over my head. This film version of the trilogy is interesting but very confusing for a novice like me. There are vignettes of different characters everywhere while Proust dies. Many are interesting and I was glad I watched the film, now I think I need to read the books!
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AN ATTACK !
Added 7/10/2006
It seems Jargo that you are hypocritical. You say that films are supposed to move you. You are absolutely right, as this film has moved you; it has moved you to vent your anger and disgust against "snobs". Perhaps you hate your social betters because you wish to be part of them, but you will never be. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !
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read Proust first!
Added 7/8/2005
This is a wonderful film, a tribute by the Chilean-born direct Raoul Ruiz, in French with subtitles that occasionally are hard to read against the gold-white light of Marcel's retrospections. The most astonishing performance is John Malkovich's as Charlus, despite the fact that he doesn't resemble him in the slightest (Proust described the baron as so fat that he waddled, and his head as enormous).
The film is based on the novel's final book, which we now know as Finding Time Again, and begins with Marcel on his deathbed, dictating in a ghostly voice the novel that will be his triumph over death. The dying writer never reappears; what we get instead are scenes from the story of his life, including Little Marcel with his magic lantern at Combray, Young Marcel meeting Charlus at Balbec, and Middle-Aged Marcel attending the final society concert chez Prince de Guermantes, It's very difficult to follow, and should by no means be regarded as hors d'oeuvres to the feast of In Search of Lost Time, but rather as a digestif to follow it. -- Dan Ford at readingproust dot com
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Excellent movie
Added 1/26/2009
Each film of Raoul Ruiz is very extraordinary! For people who enjoy metaphysical atmosphere, ambiance of sounds and visual images.
This film about Marcel Proust inner space movements will help think and feel about world around us from other viewing point or place. But for that is necessary to watch film with all kind of your senses.
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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time.
Added 10/28/2008
Prolific Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz's 1999 film Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé) will appeal to anyone with a love for Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Set on the eve of the First World War, the film tells the story of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) who revisites his past experiences while lying on his deathbed. Proust was a French a, best known for his six-volume In Search of Lost Time. He spent the last years of his life confined to his cork-lined bedroom, sleeping during the day and working at night to complete his novel. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Ruiz deserves credit for taken on the seemingly impossible challenge of bring Proust to life in film. His floating camera techniques camera remind me of the films of Max Ophuls. With a running time of 162 minutes, many viewers will simply not have the patience nor the endurance to experience this flight of fancy in its entirety. But there is a big payoff for those who do. It will bring you to the edges of your senses. At times reminscent of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ruiz's surrealistic film chronicles the flashbacks and fantasies of Marcel Proust (Marcello Mazzarella) struggling to stay conscious and complete his novel. Photographs elicit memories of his youth and his lovers. His fictional characters (played by an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve as Odette de Crécy, Emmanuelle Béart as the beautiful Gilberte, John Malkovich as the pleasure-addict Baron de Charlus, Pascal Greggory as Saint-Loup, and Chiara Mastroianni as Proust's lover Albertine) wander through his stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, this film is ultimately an insightful lesson in how to live one's life. A beautiful film recommended with reservations.
G. Merritt
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Time Regained
Added 7/9/2008
I admit I have never read Remembrances of Time Past so a lot went over my head. This film version of the trilogy is interesting but very confusing for a novice like me. There are vignettes of different characters everywhere while Proust dies. Many are interesting and I was glad I watched the film, now I think I need to read the books!
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