It took four writers, several production companies, and the French Ministry of Culture to make this adaptation of the beginning of Marcel Proust's monumental
Remembrance of Things Past. Jeremy Irons is Charles Swann, a wealthy Jewish intellectual who has overcome anti-Semitism in
19th-century Paris and managed to become part of le haute monde. The film shows his courtship and socially suicidal marriage to the courtesan Odette (Ornella Muti), condensing part of Proust's seven-volume work into a single day in the life of Swann. The couple's affair is shown in flashback as
recalled by Swann, revealing that he has married this woman, his complete opposite, witho...
Released:
1984
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins